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Mystery of Anglo-Saxon teen buried in bed with gold cross
Past Horizons Magazine ^
| Friday, March 16, 2012
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Posted on 03/16/2012 11:46:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Cicero
Could be ``J`` directly above the ``C`` and at the bottom rt. of the top segment?
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posted on
03/16/2012 1:56:33 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
(Knights of Jerusalem in England? ?? Who knew?)
To: SunkenCiv
English Church? In those years, it would be the Roman Catholic Church. Imagine being converted by St. Augustine, or his emmisary!
Beautiful cross.
To: GeronL
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03/16/2012 2:19:17 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: SunkenCiv; netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; ...
In 597 AD, the pope dispatched St Augustine to England on a mission to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxon kings; a process that was not completed for many decades. Using the latest scientific techniques to analyse this exceptional find could result in a greater understanding of this pivotal period in British history, and the spread of Christianity in eastern England in the Anglo-Saxon period. Catholic Ping
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posted on
03/16/2012 2:19:53 PM PDT
by
NYer
(He who hides in his heart the remembrance of wrongs is like a man who feeds a snake on his chest. St)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
The town in the Cotswold's that my family originated in was founded in 668 as a Priory by Tetta who ever that was. I often wondered what it was like to live in a town where everyone had the same last name,
To: kalee
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posted on
03/16/2012 2:37:58 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: SunkenCiv
You’re welcome! And that’s ok - I’m going to have fun exploring all those links later. :-)
To: GeronL
I’m surprised that her skull (and teeth) survived in such good shape.
To: afraidfortherepublic
The first Council of Arles was held in 314, bishops from the western part of the empire including three from Britain attended.
If the church did not exist in England before Augustine who were they?
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posted on
03/16/2012 2:57:41 PM PDT
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kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: kalee
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posted on
03/16/2012 3:11:08 PM PDT
by
DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
To: kalee
If the church did not exist in England before Augustine who were they? The early English church was essentially wiped out by the various pagan invaders, of whom the Anglo-Saxons were merely the most prominent.
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03/17/2012 4:25:55 AM PDT
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jimtorr
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