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...Clooney plays Augustine, who might be the last man on Earth, an ageing scientist with terminal cancer who is manning an observatory in the Arctic Circle....
...The contrast with the peaceful mission to convert Britain’s Anglo-Saxons, entrusted to St Augustine by Pope St Gregory the Great in 595, could not be greater. David J Critchley Winslow, Bucks, UK...
...Augustine, a Roman monk, arrived in Kent in 597 at the head of a mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great and became the first Archbishop of Canterbury....
...Years ago, Ben Ensminger-Law was wandering round New York’s galleries one Saturday when he stopped inside Luhring Augustine to admire a set of photographs by Gregory Crewdson....
...When Pope Gregory sent Augustine from Rome to reintroduce Christianity to England in AD597, the original plan was to press on to London....
...In 597, however, Pope Gregory the Great sent St Augustine to convert the Anglo-Saxons, a mission he achieved with spectacular success....
...In Augustine the link between lust and uncleanness, disgust, corruption of the body, hell and damnation was made complete....
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