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Title: The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine
Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894

Author: George Forrest Browne

Release Date: April 3, 2010 [EBook #31872]

Language: English

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THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THESE
ISLANDS BEFORE THE COMING
OF AUGUSTINE.

_Three Lectures delivered at St. Paul's in
January 1894_

BY THE
REV. G. F. BROWNE, B.D., D.C.L.,

CANON OF ST. PAUL'S,
AND FORMERLY DISNEY PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE.

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.
1894.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

PAGE

Importance of the anniversaries connected with the years
1894-1897.--Christianity in Kent immediately before
Augustine.--Dates of Bishop Luidhard and Queen Bertha.--
Romano-British Churches in Canterbury.--Who were the
Britons.--Traditional origin of British Christianity.--
St. Paul.--Joseph of Arimathea.--Glastonbury.--Roman
references to Britain 5

LECTURE II.

Early mentions of Christianity in Britain.--King
Lucius.--Origin and spread of Christianity in Gaul.--
British Bishops at Councils.--Pelagianism.--British
Bishops of London.--Fastidius 54

LECTURE III.

Early Christianity in other parts of these islands.--
Ninian in the south-west of Scotland.--Palladius and
Patrick in Ireland.--Columba in Scotland.--Kentigern
in Cumbria.--Wales--Cornwall.--The fate of the several
Churches.--S