Augustine the Missionary
In AD 597 a missionary called Augustine was sent from Rome to England to make the Anglo-Saxons Christians. Many monks came from Rome and many monasteries and churches were built.
Up to then, the Anglo-Saxon language had been only spoken. The monks, who spent most of their time copying manuscripts by hand, wrote it down for the first time. The Lindisfarne Gospels were copied out by hand at the end of the 7th century. The task took the monks 23 years.