The best pictures of Saint Augustine

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The best pictures of Saint Augustine show him arriving in Britain and performing various sacred rituals as England’s first Archbishop of Canterbury.
The first picture shows Saint Augustine’s arrival in the Kingdom of Kent.

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St Augustine arriving in Britain with his Benedictine monks by Pat Nicolle

The second picture shows Augustine preaching to Ethelbert, the Saxon King of Kent, in 597.

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Augustine preaches to King Ethelbert and an attentive Queen Bertha by Peter Jackson

The third picture shows Augustine baptising Ethelbert.

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St Augustine baptising King Ethelbert by Peter Jackson

Many more pictures of the Archbishops of Canterbury can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

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