Daily Medieval

If, of the members of the Benedictine Confederation, the Camaldolese Congregation was founded in 980, and the Vallombrosians in 1036, how ca...

Augustine (early 6th century - c.26 May 604) was a prior of the Abbey of St. Andrew in Rome when he was chosen by Pope Gregory to travel to ...

One of the anecdotes about Pope Gregory "the Great" that is most often repeated is how it came about that he sent missionaries to...

The earliest mention of the man who became Pope Celestine I was a reference to "Celestine the Deacon" in a 416 document by Pope In...

A major victory of Saxons in England over the native Britons took place just south of Chester in the early 7th century. Æthelfrith, the king...

Much is made of Augustine's 597 arrival in Britain to christianize the island, but the Synod of Chester, where he expected to assert au...

The Venerable Bede tells a story of Pope Gregory I in the Roman slave market, seeing some fair-haired and light-skinned slaves from Britain ...

Christianity came to Britain early. Tertullian and Origen, writing in the early 3rd century, mention Christian figures there. What is now Ch...

The previous post discussed some aspects of Celtic Christianity found in the British Isles that differed from the "mainstream" ...

St. Mellitus, converter of Anglo-Saxons We have the story, handed down from Bede, that Pope Gregory I sent a mission to England in 597 t...

The Black Death, estimated to have killed up to one-third of Europeans from 1347-1351, caused changes in society that we cannot imagine. Som...