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SAINT AUGUSTINE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Augustine, born in Rome the 13th of November 534, he was prior monk of the Benedictine Monastery of Sant’Andrea al Celio, when, in 597, he was sent by pope St. Gregory the Great in England with about forty monks of the same community, in order to convert to Christ the people. There was at that time in Kent the powerful king Aethelbert, who, having learned the reason for Augustine's arrival, invited him with his companions to Canterbury, the capital of his kingdom; and accorded him willingly to dwell there and preach there the Faith of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the holy man erected an oratory near Canterbury, where he resided for some time, and where he led an entirely apostolic kind of life with his companions.