According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to this view, Beowulf can largely be seen to be the product of antiquarian interests and that it tells readers more about " an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about Denmark, and its pre-history, than it does about the age of Bede and a 7th-or 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ’ s notions about his ancestors ’ homeland.

According to Cuthbert, Bede fell ill " with frequent attacks of breathlessness but almost without pain ", before Easter.

According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

According to Bede, Æthelberht was descended directly from Hengist.

According to Bede, Hengist and Horsa were the sons of Wictgils, son of Witta, son of Woden.

According to Bede, they finally settled in Kent ( where they became known as the Cantuarii ), Hampshire ( in Wessex ), and the Isle of Wight ( where they became known as the Uictuarii ).

According to Bede, Justus received letters of encouragement from Pope Boniface V ( 619 – 625 ), as did Mellitus, although Bede does not record the actual letters.

" According to Bede, Pope Boniface also sent letters to King Edwin of Northumbria in 625 urging him to embrace the Christian faith, and to the Christian Princess Æthelburg of Kent, Edwin's spouse, exhorting her to use her best endeavours for the conversion of her consort ( Bede, H. E., II, vii, viii, x, xi ).

According to Bede, Æðelwealh, king of Sussex, had previously been baptised in Mercia at the suggestion of Wulfhere, who presented him with the Isle of Wight and the Meonwara.

According to Bede, Sussex was subject to Ine for a number of years.

According to Bede, some bishops and other representatives of the nearest province of the Britons met Augustine at a location at the border of the Kingdom of Kent, which was thereafter known as Augustine's Oak.

According to Bede, the British Christians ' failure to " complete " the sacrament of Baptism was one of the three specific issues with British practice that Augustine could not overlook.

According to Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a history of the English church written by the 8th-century monk Bede, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

According to Bede, his death threatened to cause further strife between the two kingdoms, but Theodore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, intervened: Theodore, the beloved of God, enlisting God's help, smothered the flames of this awful peril by his wholesome advice.

According to Gildas, followed by Bede, Roman Caerleon was the site of two early Christian martyrdoms, those of Julius and Aaron.

According to Bede, Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted to paganism upon coming to power.

According to Bede, Eadbald was punished for his faithlessness by " frequent fits of insanity ", and possession by an " evil spirit " ( perhaps referring to epileptic fits ), but was eventually persuaded to give up his wife and adopt Christianity.

According to Bede, Oswiu allowed Peada to rule the southern part of Mercia ; southern Mercia consisted of 5, 000 families, Bede reports, while northern Mercia was populated by 7, 000 families, and the two were divided by the River Trent.

According to early historians such as the Venerable Bede and Gildas, whose writings were later brought together in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in 449 Angles, Saxons and Jutes were invited to Britain by King Vortigern as mercenaries to help defend Britain against Picts and Scots.

According to Bede, before the battle Oswiu prayed to God and promised to make his daughter a nun and grant twelve estates for the construction of monasteries if he was victorious.

According to the Figurists ( a group of Jesuit missionaries mainly led by Joachim Bouvet into China at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century and based on ideas of Matteo Ricci 1552 to 1610 ), Fu Xi in China's ancient history is actually Enoch.

According to Palmer, the church and the monastery were built in 640 by early Nestorian missionaries.

According to the latter theory, the name came from Portuguese missionaries or traders in Nagasaki who noted its resemblance to the European shawm.

According to a biography by Joan Graff Clucas, in her early years Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service in Bengal, and by age 12 was convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life.

According to the CGBCI official website, missionaries are supported in Brazil, Cameroon, Germany and India.

According to the contemporary sources of Christian missionaries of the early Middle Ages, particularly of Saxo Grammaticus who gave a detailed account of Svetovid's great temple on the island of Rügen, the pagan Slavs held a great festival each summer in honor of Svetovid.

According to an article published in 2004 " South Korea dispatched more than 12, 000 missionaries to over 160 countries in comparison to about 46, 000 American and 6, 000 British missionaries, according to missionary organizations in South Korea and the West ".

According to an article published in 2007 " Korea has 16, 000 missionaries working overseas, second only to the US ".

According to Aboriginal anthropologist Kathleen Butler-McIlwraith, there were many occasions when the Catholic Church attempted to advocate for Aboriginal rights, but the missionaries were also " functionaries of the Protection and Assimilation policies " of the government and so " directly contributed to the current disadvantage experienced by Indigenous Australians ".

According to Frauwallner ( Frauwallner, 1956 ), several of these missionaries were responsible for founding schools in various parts of India: Majjhantika was the father of the Kasmiri Sarvastivādins ; Yonaka Dhammarakkhita may have been the founder of the Dharmaguptaka school ; Mahādeva, sent to the Mahisa country may have been the founder of the Mahisasakas ; and several teachers travelled to the Himalayas where they founded the Haimavata school, including a certain Kassapagotta, who may be connected with the Kasyapiyas.

According to the hagiography of Saint Cyril and Methodius by Clement of Ohrid, Naum took part in the historic mission to Moravia together with Cyril, Methodius, Clement, Angelarius, Gorazd and other Slavic missionaries in 863.

" According to the Stele, Alopen and his fellow missionaries came to China from Daqin ( or Ta Tsin – the Roman Empire ) in the ninth year of Emperor Taizong ( Tai Tsung ) ( 635 ), bringing sacred books and images.

According to their official website, they are careful not to mix their missionary work and humanitarian aid in an effort to ensure that people are not influenced to a particular teaching or religion simply by the material goods the missionaries have to offer.

According to the chronicle, missionaries felled the images and statues of gods from the hill.

According to Ullrich, the misnomer of the Yankton-Yanktonai, < p >" began with the mid-nineteenth century missionaries among the Santee who over-applied a rule of phonetic distribution.

According to Catholic missionaries George remained until his death a faithful Catholic.

According to Caroline Reeves, a historian at Emmanuel College in Boston, that began to change with the arrival of American missionaries in the late 19th century.

According to the above theory, typical memetic engineers include scientists, engineers, industrial designers, ad-men, artists, publicists, political activists, and religious missionaries.

According to Professor Samy S. Swayd Fatimid missionaries made their Dawah in China during the reign of Al-Aziz.

According to the missionaries ' reports, they had more than 3, 000 head of cattle, goats, and sheep, as well as 400 horses and mules in the meadows.

According to one authority, the majority of the Sidama practice their traditional beliefs, and only in the 1960s that European missionaries came to their region did any leave that faith.