A Light in Kent - St. Augustine of Canterbury

The Great Rood Screen · Jul 9, 2026

In a Roman slave market around the year 575, a monk stops before a stall of fair-haired boys from a far northern island and asks where they are from. Told they are Angles, and pagans, he answers that they have the faces of angels and ought to be coheirs with the angels in heaven — and he never forgets them. His name is Gregory, and when he becomes Pope he sends a reluctant monk named Augustine with forty companions to the edge of the world. Dcn. Seraphim turns the map around — away from the Celtic north and west the podcast has lived in for eighteen episodes — to tell the story of the Roman…