Mellitus was the first
Bishop of London, the third
Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the
Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the
Anglo-Saxons. He arrived in 601 AD, and was consecrated as Bishop of London in 604. Pope
Gregory I sent Mellitus a letter now known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually and integrate pagan rituals and customs. Following the deaths of his patrons, King
Sæberht of Essex and King
Æthelberht of Kent, Mellitus was exiled from London and forced to take refuge in
Gaul. Æthelberht's successor converted to Christianity the following year, and Mellitus returned to England. Unable to return to the pagan inhabitants of London, he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 619. During his tenure, he was alleged to have miraculously saved the cathedral, and much of the town of Canterbury, from a fire. After his death in 624, Mellitus was revered as a saint. (more...)
Concretions on Bowling Ball Beach in
Mendocino County,
California. A concretion is a volume of
sedimentary rock in which a
mineral cement fills the spaces between the sediment grains, usually forming an ovoid or spherical shape. This normally occurs early in the burial history of the sediment, before the rest of the sediment is hardened into rock.
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