The year 597 AD.
Events[]
- Establishment of Diocese of Canterbury.
- Establishment of Saint Augustine's Abbey, in Canterbury.
- Saint Augustine becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
- Pope Gregory I sends a delegation of monks under the Roman Augustine to Britain to convert the English.
Births[]
- Samuel the Confessor, Coptic Orthodox saint, born in Egypt (date unknown).
Deaths[]
- May 24 — Simeon Stylites the younger, Eastern Orthodox Church saint, died at Antioch.
- June 9 — Columba, Roman Catholic Church saint, died on the island of Iona, Scotland.
- June 13 — Cettus, Roman Catholic Church saint, died in Amiternum, Italy.
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