![]() ![]() Compare also Mellitus building a church dedicated to the Holy Mother of God ( HE 2.6) to Pope Boniface's recent dedication of the erstwhile Pantheon to the Holy Mother of God and all the martyrs, recorded by Bede ( HE 2.4). Mynors, Oxford 1969, 114), suggests that Augustine's church was envisaged as a cathedral, as the Lateran then was in Rome. Plummer, Oxford 1896, 70 Bede's Ecclesiastical history of the English people, ed. ![]() Bede's language, ‘Augustinus, ubi in regia civitate sedem episcopalem … accepit … ecclesiam … in nomine sancti Salvatoris Dei et Domini nostri Iesu Christi sacravit’ ( Opera historica, ed. ![]() 1 Augustine dedicated churches in the name of the Saviour the Roman church later called St John Lateran was then known by the same name: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica 1.33. ![]()
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