VCanterburyhas given at least one word to the English language. It is the verb "to canter", which means to move at a gentle gallop. The word is appropriate because Canterbury always has been associated, and still is, with people on the move. It is a place that people love to visit; and since "to...
VCanterburyhas given at least one word to the English language. It is the verb "to canter", which means to move at a gentle gallop. The word is appropriate because Canterbury always has been associated, and still is, with people on the move. It is a place that people love to visit; and since "to canter" came from a time when the principal means of transport was the horse, the visiting has been going on for a very long time. The word was probably first coined for pilgrims such as Chaucer had in mind when he wrote his 'Canterbury Tales', but people had been visiting Canterbury long before that time. The first visitor of note associated with Canterbury was St. Augustine. He arrived in 597 A.D. and even then the city was old. It had begun its existence as a Roman town built soon after the Romans conquered Britain. Kent lay nearest to the Continent and there the Romans established three ports to provide the communicating links between Britain and their empire. These ports were at Richborough, Dover and Lympne and the roads from all these places converged like the spokes of a wheel to meet at a central spot from which one main road led to the capital at London. At the place where the roads met a town was built called Durovernum; here there was a Christian church, but other than the mere fact of its existence we know nothing of it. In fact after the Romans left Britain in 410 A.D., Durovernum fell into decay and the Christian community seemed to come to an end. The withdrawl of the Romans created a powervacuum and Britain was left defenceless at the mercy of invading tribesmen who came from Scandinavia. A tribe called the Cantii set up a kingdom in Kent and took over the site of Durovernum to be their capital, Cantawarabrig, now renamed Canterbury. It was to this city that Augustine came.j erhaps Augustine came to Canterbury with little enthusiasm. He was not the stuff of which pioneers are made, but he was under orders and those orders he faithfully obeyed. He was a monk serving as prior of a benedictine monastery in Rome. His predecessor Gregory, as prior, had been elected Pope and became one of the greatest leaders of the church in Rome. Later ages have remembered him as St. Gregory the Great. At that time things did not seem to be going well for the Christian faith. The withdrawal of Roman authority from the northern parts of the empire had meant that many areas had been over-run by pagan tribes. What had happened in Britain, also happened in many other parts of Europe and the church seemed to be retreating before the forces of paganism. Gregory was concerned to arrest that retreat, indeed to reverse it, and he himself wanted to take part in a mission to Britain. The story told of him seeing boy captives from Britain being offered for sale as slaves in the market place at Rome, asking where they came from, and on being told that they were English (Angli) replied 'non Angli, sedTop: 1588 Map of Canterbury Bottom: S. E. England in Roman times1
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