Event: Meeting, Ordering, Pastoral activities/preaching

Scholarly Info
Description	Æthelberht 3 came to the island and commanded Augustine 1 and his comrades (Anonymi 649) to come to talk to him. They met in the open air, and at the king's command Augustine 1 and his companions sat down and preached the word of life to himself and all his "comites".

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Original Text	[...]uenit ad insulam rex, et iussit Augustinuum cum sociis ad suum ibidem aduenire colloquium[...]. Cumque ad iussionem regis residentes uerbum ei uitae una cum omnibus qui aderant eius comitibus praedicarent [...]

Participant: Æthelberht 3 (First Christian king of Kent, 560 or c.585-616) : He wanted to meet them in the open air, for he held the traditional superstition that, if they practised any magic art, they might deceive him.
Participant: Augustine 1 (Archbishop of Canterbury, 597-604x609; apostle of the English)
Participant: Anonymi 649 (Monks sent by Gregory 1 with Augustine 1 to preach the word of God to the English people) : They came endowed with divine power and bearing as their standard a silver cross and the image of Christ painted on a panel. Thay chanted litanies, uttered prayers and preached the word of life.
Participant: Anonymi 682 ('Comites' who went with Æthelberht 3 to meet Augustine 1 and his companions on the island of Thanet) : They went to the Island of Thanet with Æthelberht 3 to meet Augustine 1 and his companions.

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