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Ethelbert, He married Berta Christian princess, daughter of the king of Paris, he asked her to be erected a church and some Christian priests hold sacred rites there. When Pope Gregory the Great heard the news, concluded that the time was ripe for the evangelization of the island. Entrusted with the mission to the prior of the Benedictine monastery of Saint Andrew, whose main characteristic was not courage, but humility and docility. That monk was Augustine. In 597 out of Rome leading a group of forty monks. He stopped at the island of Lerins. Here is discussed the bellicose temperament of the Saxons, and it terrified him to the point of him back to Rome to ask the pope to change his program. To encourage him, Gregory was appointed abbot and soon after, almost to make him take the final step, as soon came to Gaul, he consecrated bishop. He continued his journey with short steps. Finally he came to the British island of Thenet, where the king was personally welcome the invitation of his...

At the end of the twelfth century is born Richard, Wyche, a family of farm workers. Bump permanent austerity and harshness of life in the style of the greats of his time. The bishops are "lords" and loving human care, the monks abound in prosperity and luxury, the nobles are ambitious and on the throne is seen a flow strongly royalist. The lower class of people is poor and is steeped in ignorance and superstition. Richard is energetic and uncompromising when dealing with matters in which is present injustice, immorality or greed. Possibly the natural condition it is what leads to a distancing, if not rejection of the powerful. The fact is that austerity lived in the house of his parents when he was child-must prepare for the mission to be played as an adult. March to study at Oxford where he has good teachers Franciscans and Dominicans, and as more resources are not stretched, starved and cold. A short stay in Paris and returned to Oxford, graduating in Arts. In Bologna learn...

Edward the Martyr was founded in 962, being the eldest son of Edgar the Pacific, King of England, and his first wife Ethelfleda, Ordmaer gentleman's daughter. On the death of his father (July 8, 975) succeeded to the throne despite the opposition of his stepmother Elfrida, which defended the rights of her son Ethelred the grounds that he was born of a queen anointed, while the mother Edward was never crowned. But thanks to the support of Dunstan, finally manages to be proclaimed king by the Witenagemot. Its policy is guided, supported by Dunstan, in defending the rights of the Church, diminished in previous reigns. Therefore, many nobles wanted to put in place the young Edward. On 18 March 978, was hunting with his dogs and some gentlemen in Wareham, Dorset, when he decides to visit his half-brother in Corfe Castle, near Wareham, where he lived with his mother. Separated from the group that accompanied him, arrived alone at the castle. While riding his horse, his stepmother Elfrida...