Bertram Colgrave

In his role of apostle to the English and the promoter of Augustine's mission, Pope Gregory the Great became the subject of what is one of the earliest pieces of literature surviving from the Anglo Saxon period: a life written by an unknown author at Whitby around 680 to 704 AD. Although crude in its Latin and idiosyncratic and its presentation, the work is a fascinating source of early traditions about the conversion of the English.