When Gregory (S40) became Pope he fulfilled his resolution, and sent
Augustine with a band of forty monks to Britain. In 597 they landed
on the very spot where the first Saxon war band had set foot on
English soil nearly one hundred and fifty years before. Like Caesar
and his legions, Augustine and his monks brought with them the power
of Rome. But this time that power did not come armed with the sword
to force men to submit or die, but inspired with a persuasive voice to
cheer them with new hope.