Sebert, king of the
East Saxons, received a bishop sent from Kent, and suffered him to build
up again a Christian church in what was now his subject city of London,
while the East Anglian king Redwald resolved to serve Christ and the
older gods together.
FOOTNOTES:
[43] Translated by King Alfred the Great.
[44] That is, with their near kinsfolk.
[45] A brother is here styled "his brotherliness," as a pope "his
holiness."
[46] The remainder of this is not translated here.
[47] "Sir" in English (_Schir_, Scottish) equal to _Dominus_, Latin, was
five or six centuries ago prefixed to the name of every ordained priest.
[48] See introduction to _Augustine's Missionary Work in England_.
THE HEGIRA
CAREER OF MAHOMET: THE KORAN: AND MAHOMETAN CREED
A.D. 622
IRVING OCKLEY
The flight of Mahomet from Mecca to Medina occurred June 20, 622,
and was called the _hegira_, or departure of the prophet. That
event marks the commencement of the Mahometan era, which is called
there-from the _Hegira_. According to the civil calculation it is
fixed at Friday, July 16th, the date of the Mahometans, although
astronomers and some historians assign it to the day preceding.
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