Patron saints
Patron saint of England
Discover 1 canonized saint(s) honored as patron of England — their feast days, biographies, and prayers.
Saints
Augustine of CanterburyOpt. MemorialMay 27
Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – c. 26 May 604, or 605) was a Christian monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He was the prior of a Benedictine monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory I chose him in 595 to lead a mission, usually known as the Gregorian mission, to Britain to Christianize King Æthelberht and his Kingdom of Kent from Anglo-Saxon paganism.
England