AD 500-1000: Witness of the Saints

  • 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

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