Monastic Precursors in the East.

Monastic Precursors in the West.

St. Benedict.

St. Gregory the Great—Monastic Italy and Spain in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries.

The Monks under the First Merovingians.

St. Columbanus—The Irish in Gaul and the Colonies of Luxeuil.

Christian Origin of the British Isles.

St. Columba, the Apostle of Caledonia, 521-597.

St. Augustin of Canterbury and the Roman Missionaries in England, 597-633.

The Celtic Monks and the Anglo-Saxons.