5.3 Monks and missionaries

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5.3 Monks and Missionaries

A monk copying a book word by word

Goals for today

At the end of this lesson you...

• understand how missionaries spread the christian faith.
• understand how the church network was organised.

Monasteries

• =Place where hermits lived together.
• Hermit= Isolated believer. 
• Later hermits were called monks.
• Members of the monastery

Hermits lived alone or together with other Hermits to focus on God

The spread of christianity in Europe (6th century)

Willibrord

• = English christian
• Became a missionary= someone who spreads christianity.
• He converted most of the area that is now the Netherlands.

Willibrord has a statue in Utrecht because he brought christianity to Utrecht and to the rest of the Netherlands

Missionaries

• Built churches and began a network of churches that worked together to spread christianity.
• The network was led by the pope and locally the bisshop.

[5.3] What did hermits do to be closer to God?

[5.3] What is the name of the person in the middle?

Which of these four countries was the last to become christian?

1. England
2. Italy
3. Turkey
4. Netherlands

Kijken vanaf 4:31

Old Dutch conversion to Christianity

''Ec forsacho diabolae, end allum diobolgeldae, end ec forsacho allum dioboles wercum and wordum, Thunaer ende Woden ende Saxnote ende allum them unholdum the hira genotas, sint. Ec gelobo in Got alamehtigan fadaer. Ec gelobo in Crist gotes suno. Ec gelobo in Halogan Gast.''

Read together text on page 107-108

Ask for translations

Murder of Boniface

• Groups of two
• 1 laptop allowed
• Read the assignment together