Mellitus fled first to Canterbury, but Æthelberht's successor Eadbald was also a pagan, so Mellitus, accompanied by Justus, took refuge in Gaul.

Bede also mentioned that Mellitus suffered from gout.

* Still later 624: the pope hears from Eadbald of his conversion, and also hears of Mellitus ’ s death.

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It also suggests that the creature may take a solid form at will, as the Mellitus cloud creature of Alpha Majoris I that can change from gaseous to solid forms.

It is known that Laurence returned to England with Mellitus and others of the second group of missionaries in the summer of 601, but there is no record of Peter being with them.

In 610, Mellitus returned to Italy to attend a council of bishops, and returned to England bearing papal letters to some of the missionaries.

Mellitus returned to England the following year, after Æthelberht's successor had been converted to Christianity, but he was unable to return to London, whose inhabitants remained pagan.

Mellitus ( died 24 April 624 ) was the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity.

In letters, Pope Gregory I called him an abbot, but it is unclear whether Mellitus had previously been abbot of a Roman monastery, or this was a rank bestowed on him to ease his journey to England by making him the leader of the expedition.

Passion scenes from the St Augustine Gospels, possibly brought by Mellitus to England

Pope Gregory I sent Mellitus to England in June 601, in response to an appeal from Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

" Thomas of Elmham, a 15th-century Canterbury chronicler, claimed that in his day there were a number of the books brought to England by Mellitus still at Canterbury.

While on his journey to England, Mellitus received a letter from Gregory allowing Augustine to convert pagan temples to Christian churches, and to convert pagan animal sacrifices into Christian feasts, to ease the transition to Christianity.

Exactly when Mellitus and his party arrived in England is unknown, but he was certainly in the country by 604, when Augustine consecrated him as bishop in the province of the East Saxons, making Mellitus the first Bishop of London after the Roman departure ( London was the East Saxons ' capital ).

Boniface had Mellitus take two papal letters back to England, one to Æthelbert and his people, and another to Laurence, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

* The future Archbishops of Canterbury, Mellitus, Justus, and Honorius, and the future Archbishop of York Paulinus, are sent to England by Pope Gregory I to aid Augustine in his missionary work.

A pagan backlash against Christianity followed Æthelberht's death in 616, forcing Justus and Mellitus to flee to Gaul.

Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually, integrating pagan rituals and customs.

Mellitus was exiled from London by the pagan successors to his patron, King Sæberht of Essex, following the latter's death around 616.

However, Mellitus did not return to London, because the East Saxons remained pagan.

Pope Gregory issued more practicable mandates concerning heathen temples and usages: he desired that temples become consecrated to Christian service and asked Augustine to transform pagan practices, so far as possible, into dedication ceremonies or feasts of martyrs, since " he who would climb to a lofty height must go up by steps, not leaps " ( letter of Gregory to Mellitus, in Bede, i, 30 ).

Bede tells that Sæberht converted to Christianity in 604 and was baptised by Mellitus, while his sons remained pagan.

Sæberht's pagan sons drove Mellitus from London.

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.

Augustine did consecrate Mellitus as bishop of London and Justus as bishop of Rochester.

King Æthelberht of Kent, Mellitus ' other patron, died at about the same time, forcing him to take refuge in Gaul.

Boniface wrote to Mellitus encouraging him in the mission, perhaps prompted by the marriage of Æthelburh of Kent to King Edwin of Northumbria.

One is written to Justus after he had succeeded Mellitus as Archbishop of Canterbury in 624, conferring the pallium upon him and directing him to " ordain bishops as occasion should require.

* 616 / 617: Some time after Mellitus and Justus depart, Laurence, the archbishop of Canterbury, plans to leave for Francia, but has a vision in which St Peter scourges him.

* 24 April 624: Mellitus dies and Justus succeeds him as archbishop of Canterbury.

* 24 April 624: Mellitus dies and Justus succeeds him as archbishop of Canterbury.

In 604, the Gaulish churchman Mellitus was consecrated by Augustine as bishop in the province of the East Saxons, which had a capital at London, making him the first Bishop of London.

When he and his brothers saw Mellitus ( d. 624 ), bishop of London, giving the eucharist to the people in church, they said to him, so it was commonly believed in the Venerable Bede's time, " Why do you not offer us the white bread that you used to give to our father Saba, for so they called him, and which you still give to the people?

* 617: Justus and Mellitus both return from Francia, " the year after they left ".

The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.

The second group included Mellitus, who later became Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.

Together with Mellitus, the Bishop of London, Justus signed a letter written by Archbishop Laurence of Canterbury to the Irish bishops urging the native church to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter.

Although Gregory had intended London to be the southern archbishopric for the island, Augustine never moved his episcopal see to London, and instead consecrated Mellitus as a plain bishop there.

Sæberht's three sons had not converted to Christianity, and drove Mellitus from London.

In Higham's view, Sæberht's sons drove Mellitus from London because they had passed from Kentish overlordship to East Anglian, and thus no longer needed to keep Mellitus, who was connected with the Kentish kingdom, in office.

During the pontificate of Boniface, Mellitus, the first Bishop of London, went to Rome " to consult the pope on important matters relative to the newly established English Church ".

Their king, Saeberht, was converted early and a diocese was established at London, but its first bishop, Mellitus, was expelled by Saeberth's heirs.

* Mellitus becomes Bishop of London and founds the first St. Paul's Cathedral.

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.

Sæberht, the king of Essex, had become a Christian under Æthelberht's influence, but on Sæberht's death, at about the same time, his sons expelled Mellitus, the bishop of London.

At about this time Mellitus, bishop of London, is expelled by the sons of Sæberht in Essex, and goes to Kent.

Eadbald's reduced power is apparent in his inability to restore Mellitus to the see of London: in Bede's words, his authority in Essex " was not so effective as that of his father ".