Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop; Minor Rogation Day

The Church offers the Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury (d. 605), who was born in Rome and died in Canterbury, England, in 604. When Pope Gregory I heard that the pagans of Britain were disposed to accept the Catholic Faith, he sent the prior of St. Andrew, Augustine, and forty of his…

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