CONTENTS Chapter Page I Celts and Saxons 1 II St. Gregory 18 III St. Augustine's Mission 30 IV Canterbury 51 V St. Gregory's Letters 67 VI The Welsh Church 95 VII Augustine's Last Years and Death 115 VIII St. Augustine's Work under his Immediate Successors 131 IX St. Paulinus of York 140 X Gloria Posthuma 171 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS St. Martin's Church, Canterbury Frontispiece Gateway, St. Augustine's Abbey To face page 62 Plan of Canterbury Cathedral in Saxon Times " " " 64 Canterbury Cathedral from the North-East Page 182 The figure of St. Augustine on the cover is reproduced from that designed by A . IV. Pugin for F. Oakeley's "St. Augustine" in "Lives of English Saints."