Augustine’s third question, of the Registrum Epistarum 64!
What religionists forget is that early roots of what we term Christianity, Christians borrowed Pagan practices, and rites to attract, and get converts, which they did not rescind. The adoption of Pagan original rites are well documented, with the early 7th century bishop of Rome, Gregory I (590-604), aka Gregory the Great. Gregory sent an epistle (letter) answering his emissary Augustine (d. 605) letter, asking for assistance on what to do. Augustine was the emissary to the Germanics of Britain (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, etc.), he was an Abbot and landed in what is Kent today in 596/7. The letter is known as Registrum Epistarum 64, where Augustine wrote to his bishop, Gregory I of Rome, asking for directions.
Augustine’s Epistarum 64.
Third question: Since there is but one faith, why are the uses of Churches so different, one use of Mass being observed in the Roman Church, and another in the Churches of Gaul? (The term Gaul refers to the Celtic Gaul or the ancient Britons or what the Germanics called the native Britons—Walas, which mutated to Welsh, which means foreigners.)
Gregory’s reply to Augustine’s third question: Your Fraternity knows the use of the Roman Church, in which you have been nurtured. But I approve of your selecting carefully anything you have found that may be more pleasing to Almighty God. Whether in the Roman Church or that of Gaul, or in any Church whatever, and introducing in the Church of the Angli, which is as yet new in the faith, by a special institution. What you have been able to collect from many Churches. For we ought not to love things for places, but places for things. Wherefore choose from each several Churches such things as are pious, religious, and right, and, collecting them as it were into a bundle, plant them in the minds of the Angli for their use.
Nota bene: The term pope, did not appear until Pope Boniface III, in 607, received the title from the usurper, Phocas, Byzantine Emperor (602-610).
Augustine’s mission to Britain was to convert the Jutes, which he achieved in 601. When he baptised the great Jutish king, Æðelberht I (590-616), whose queen, Bertha, daughter of Charibert I, king of the Franks (517 – 567) who was already a Christian before her marriage. Augustine the emissary of Gregory I (590-604) to Britain, who landed in 597 CE, and came face to face with a different and older Christian religion, Celtic-Gaul Christianity. It is from the Catholic Augustine’s meeting the older Christian Celtic church that we get the Registrum Epistarum 64.
Gregory the Great uses the term Angli for the Jutes of Cantwara (Kent), as he was fixated with Angle child slaves in Rome’s slave market, according to the Venerable Bede. Who quoted Gregory, a regular at the Rome slave market, as saying: Non Angli, sed angeli. They are not Angles, but angels. Ecclesiastical History of England, Book II, Chapter I.
Reading of Bede’s text, one can assume that Gregory was infatuated with fair skin boys. What do you say on part or all of the OP?
Gwen Pugh (Mrs), pp. Jero Jones
R&I – TP
Jero Jones
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