Epic of Beowulf - Where Did the Christianity in Beowulf Come From? Essa

Where Did the Christianity in Beowulf Come From? The Christian influences in Beowulf in the end came from the Christian/Catholic Church of Rome which converted romishs, and thereby the Ro mankind legions and thereby the occupied provinces. Also the Christian/Catholic Bishop of Rome send missionary priests and monks to the British Isles to proselytze the population. There are additional considerations too. First of all, permit us be clear about the fact that the conversion of Britain to Christianity began kind of early. The Catholic priest Venerable the Venerable Bede, born in Bernicia, Northumbria, around 673, states in Bk 1, Ch 4 of his ecclesiastic History of the English People that plot of land Eleutherius was Bishop of Rome (175-189AD), a king of Britain named Lucius requested of the Pope that the king be baptized a Catholic by papal decree In the year of our Lord 156 Marcus Antoninus Verus was made emperor together with his brother Aurelius Commodus. He was the fourtee nth after Augustus. In their time, while a holy man called Eleutherius was bishop of the church at Rome, Lucius, a king of Britain, sent him a garner praying him that he might be made a Christian by a rescript from him. His pious request was quickly granted and the Britons preserve the faith which they had received, inviolate and entire, in peace and quiet, until the time of the Emperor Diocletian. Bedes last sentence in the passage implies that Christianity had already been found in Britain for some time prior to Eleutherius occupying Peters precede from 175-189. This seems reasonable according to what is written by the historian Eusebius Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea, in His ecclesiastic History written in the 300s. The Ecclesiastical His... ...McClure, Judith, editors. Bede The Ecclesiastical History of the English People The Greater Chronicle Bedes Letter to Egbert. New York Oxford University Press, 1969. Eusebius Ecclesiastical History, translated by C.F. Cruse. Peabody , MS Hendrickson Publishers, 2000. Magoun, Frances P. Oral-Formulaic Character of Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry. In TheBeowulf Poet, edited by Donald K. Fry. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Nero. The capital of South Carolina Encyclopedia, sixth ed. New York Columbia University Press, 2000. www.bartleby.com/65/. St. Patrick. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York Columbia University Press, 2000. www.bartleby.com/65/. Ward & Trent, et al. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York G.P. Putnams Sons, 190721 New York Bartleby.com, 2000