Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
St Martin's church in Canterbury is a fantastic little church , below is a little more information , please read and enjoy.
' St Martin’s is the oldest church in continuous use in the English-speaking world. Click here to see the Timeline of St. Martin’s
The oldest part of St Martin’s church was built during the Roman occupation of Britain. It is uncertain whether at first the building was a church, a mausoleum, or something else.
Bertha was a Christian princess from Tours in France. About AD 580 she married Ethelbert of Kent, who was a pagan Anglo– Saxon. Ethelbert restored St Martin’s for her, and she prayed here regularly. Ethelbert became king of Kent and ‘over-king’ of all the kingdoms northwards to the River Humber (200 miles to the north).
Augustine was a Benedictine monk in Rome. He arrived here in AD 597 with 40 companions, including Roman monks and Frankish interpreters, to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. St Martin’s was Augustine’s first base for his mission. “Here, according to the Venerable Bede, they first began to assemble, to sing the psalms, to pray, to celebrate mass, to preach and to baptize, until the king was converted to the faith and gave them greater freedom to preach and to build and restore churches everywhere.” (Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, AD 731).
( taken from the church website)
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St Martin's church in Canterbury is a fantastic little church , below is a little more information , please read and enjoy.
' St Martin’s is the oldest church in continuous use in the English-speaking world. Click here to see the Timeline of St. Martin’s
The oldest part of St Martin’s church was built during the Roman occupation of Britain. It is uncertain whether at first the building was a church, a mausoleum, or something else.
Bertha was a Christian princess from Tours in France. About AD 580 she married Ethelbert of Kent, who was a pagan Anglo– Saxon. Ethelbert restored St Martin’s for her, and she prayed here regularly. Ethelbert became king of Kent and ‘over-king’ of all the kingdoms northwards to the River Humber (200 miles to the north).
Augustine was a Benedictine monk in Rome. He arrived here in AD 597 with 40 companions, including Roman monks and Frankish interpreters, to preach the good news of Jesus Christ. St Martin’s was Augustine’s first base for his mission. “Here, according to the Venerable Bede, they first began to assemble, to sing the psalms, to pray, to celebrate mass, to preach and to baptize, until the king was converted to the faith and gave them greater freedom to preach and to build and restore churches everywhere.” (Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, AD 731).
( taken from the church website)
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