For a century and a half-from the middle of the fifth century to the end of the sixth-there had been... no formal communication between Rome and the Christians of Britain, nor had there been any between Rome and Ireland... (Thomas Cahill)

For a century and a half-from the middle of the fifth century to the end of the sixth-there had been... no formal communication between Rome and the Christians of Britain, nor had there been any between Rome and Ireland...

Thomas Cahill

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