Letter to Mellitus

Patristic · Letter · 18 July 601 · Latin

The instruction that the temples of the English were not to be destroyed but purified and reused, and their sacrifices turned into feasts of the martyrs — because a mind cannot be cut off from everything at once, and one climbs a height by steps and not by leaps. It is the clearest surviving statement of how the Roman mission actually meant to convert a people. Bede, HE 1.30.

Not among the doubted pieces.