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Excerpt from Ely Cathedral Handbook: Twenty-First Edition <p>The English were pagan in all parts which they occupied. But when Augustine came to Kent, he found Christianity known and practised in the capital city. The king had had for years a Christian queen, the daughter of the Frankish king at Paris, and the queen had had a Christian Bishop performing Christian services for her in a church preserved from British times. Thus the first seed of the conversion of the English was sown by the Church Of Gaul. Further the Kentish men had made applications to Gaul for a supply of Christian teachers, but their appeals had been neglected. Things were evidently ripe for a general change of religion, and it came rapidly. The success of Augustine in Kent was great and permanent. In all other parts his work was a failure. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.