Augustine

or AUSTIN, ST., the first Archbishop of Canterbury, was a Benedictine monk of the Convent of St. Andrew at Rome, when Pope Gregory J. in 596 A.p. sent him to convert Britain to Christianity. The gloomy accounts that he received of the island deterred him for a time from undertaking the mi ion. However, in 597 he landed in Thanet and was well received by Ethelbert, King of Kent, whose wife Bertha, a Frankish prince , was already a Christian, ‘lhe mi ioners were allowed to settle in Canterbury, and soon afterwards the king himself was baptised, The new faith now spread rapidly as far as the Humber and the Welsh marches. Augustine is snid to have baptised with his own hands 10,000 persons in a day. He was presently consecrated bishop of the English, and in 604 appointed bishops of London and Rochester, Ethelbert founding cathedrals in those two cities as well as in Canterbury. He was unsucce ful in effecting a union between the English and Welsh Churches. His death occurred probably in 607 on May 26, the day dedicated to his memory. He was buried at Canterbury in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, afterwards called St. Augustine's Abbey, now the site of the Mi ionary College, but his remains were translated to the Cathedral in 1091. August in i an Canons, 0 order of monks who observed the rule attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo. They first. appear under this name in the eleventh century, and were introduced into Eng- Jand about 1105. They had nearly 200 monasteries in England and Wales. AUGUST IN I AN FRIARS, or AUSTIN FRIARS, who have left their name to a street in the city of London, were organised and put by the Pope under the rule of their alleged founder, St. Augustine of Hippo, in the latter part of the thirteenth century. They were an austere order, holding no property and living only on the alms of the faithful, In 1570 a portion of them adopted a more austere rule forbidding shoes— whence the term “barefooted friars.” AUGUST- INIAN NUNS, vowed to the service of the sick, and claiming to heave been founded by St. Augustine of Hippo. were till recently nurses at the Hotel Dieu in Paris. ‘et Augustovo, 2 town in the Government of Suvalki, Ru ian Poland. It is on the river Netta, about 150 miles N.E. of Warsaw, and was founded by Sigismund August us, King of Poland, in 1560. Linen fabrics are made there, and a considerable trade is carried on in cattle and horses.