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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book III: VII. How the West Saxons received the Word of God by the preaching of Birinus; and of his successors, Agilbert and Leutherius. [635-670 A. D.]

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] AT that time, the West Saxons, formerly called Gewissae,in the reign of Cynegils,received the faith of Christ, through the preaching of Bishop Birinus,who came into Britain by the counsel of Pope Honorius ; having promised in his presence that he would sow the seed of the holy faith in the farthest inland regions of the English, where no other teacher hadbeen before him.

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