AD 500-1000: Witness of the Saints By vin_luk21@sas-students.com 529 St. Benedict founds his first monastery. 590 St. Gregory the Great becomes pope 596 Pope St. Gregory the Great sends St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons. 597 St. Augustine baptizes the King of Kent 716 St. Boniface leaves England to evangelize Germania 754 With St. Boniface’s help, the pope allies with the kings of the Franks