Select the correct answer.
read the passage from an ecclesiastical history of the english people, book i, excerpted
from "the arrival in kent of the missionaries by pope gregory the great."
categorize the new behavior of recently converted britons.
assigned them, they began to imitate the
course of life practiced in the primitive
church: applying themselves to frequent
prayer, watching, and fasting: preaching the
word of life to as many as they could;
despising all worldly things, as not belonging
to them; receiving only their necessary food
from those they taught; living in all respects
conformably to what they prescribed to
others, and being always disposed to suffer
any adversity, and even to die for that truth
which they preached. in short, several
believed and were baptized, admiring the
simplicity of their innocent life and the
sweetness of their heavenly doctrine.
o a. inappropriate
ob. sinful
oc. pious
od. secular
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there was on the east side of the city a
church dedicated to st. martin, built whilst
the romans were still in the island, wherein
the queen, who, as has been said before, was
a christian, used to pray. in this they first
began to meet, to sing, to pray, to say mass,
to preach and to baptize, till the king, being
converted to the faith, allowed them to
preach openly and to build or repair churches
in all places.