In a Roman slave market around the year 575, a monk stops before a stall of fair-haired boys from a far northern island and asks where they are from. Told they are Angles, and pagans, he answers that they have the faces of angels and ought to be coheirs with the angels in heaven — and he never forgets them. His name is Gregory, and when he becomes Pope he sends a reluctant monk named Augustine with forty companions to the edge of the world. Dcn. Seraphim turns the map around — away from the Celtic north and west the podcast has lived in for eighteen episodes — to tell the story of the Roman mission to the English: the frightened brothers who nearly turned back, the Christian queen Bertha and her pagan husband King Æthelberht of Kent, the open-air meeting where the king would only receive them under the sky, and the fraught encounter at Augustine's Oak with the bishops of the older British Church. Music used: "Across The Fields Of Gold" Yagull Music - Sasha Branislav Markovic, Mayu Saeki