Hello and welcome to our Start:Stop reflection from St Stephen Walbrook, my name is Phillip Dawson.
This week we remember a man who set out from a deserted city on a dangerous journey north. No, not Dominic Cummings and his much dissected trip to Durham – but St Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, who, with his mobile monastery of forty lay and ordained men, journeyed one thousand miles by sea, river and land from Rome and, on their second attempt, arrived in Canterbury, where they built a cathedral, a school and hospital and baptised thousands of new Christians; sowing the seeds of faith that would grow to become the Church of England.
