We cannot know how or when Christianity first reached Britain, but it
was certainly well before Christianity was accepted by the Roman Emperor
Constantine in the early fourth century ad.
In the last hundred years of Roman government Christianity became firmly
established across Britain, both in Roman-controlled areas and beyond. However,
the Anglo-Saxons belonged to an older Germanic religion, and they drove the
Celts into the west and north. In the Celtic areas Christianity continued to
spread, bringing paganism to an end. The map of Wales shows a number of
place-names beginning or ending with llan, meaning the site of a small
Celtic monastery around which a village or town grew.
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