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Wilfrid's House</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Anne Willis<BR><B>Sent:</B> 08 January 2010 15:31<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Re:
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<P>>Peter Whisker<BR><BR>>From the 7th to the 11th century, Ireland
remained one of the few <BR>>centres of civilisation in Europe with the
important university at <BR>>Glendalough was one of the few major centres
for study and writing in <BR>>western Europe with Ireland becoming know as
the "Land of Saints and <BR>>Scholars". Christianity had all but died out
in Britian and large parts <BR>>of Western Europe, and the Irish monastic
centres produced many <BR>>evangelists who went out across Britain and
Europe, to Italy, <BR>>Switzerland, France, Germany. Columba, Aidan, Fiacre
being well known <BR>>St. Fiacre gives his name to horse drawn cabs in
Italy...).<BR><BR>I don't think that does justice to the evangelising of the
Saxons or their<BR>scholarship. It was not just the Irish who went out to
Europe. The English<BR>mission to the Germanic peoples can, according to Peter
Hunter Blair, 'be<BR>regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements in
the whole history of<BR>the Church in England'. Missionaries included Wilfred,
Boniface, Willibrod,<BR>Alcuin to name but a few. John Blair's 'The Church in
Anglo-Saxon Society'<BR>is a very good introduction to the
subject.<BR><BR>Anne<BR><BR></P></DIV><!-- end group email --></BODY></HTML>