Britain's first Christian burial

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So, there were no Christian burials at all in Britain during the Roman Occupation (which ended in 410 CE)?
 
Kaninchen said:
So, there were no Christian burials at all in Britain during the Roman Occupation (which ended in 410 CE)?
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Folks at the Daily Mail read The Sun, which have made them all blind to historical facts and others, Kaninchen. 😃 A few days ago, their headline read:

"The crumbling cliffs of Dover: Now France is even further away as thousands of tons of chalk crash into sea after frost and drought"
 
Peggy_in_Burien said:
Maybe no earlier ones have been unearthed, yet.🙂
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It’s a case of journalistic ignorance. There’s a difference between ‘Britain’s first Anglo-Saxon Christian burial’ and ‘Britain’s first Christian burial’ (Christianity was present in what was to become England and Wales before the Anglo-Saxons and during pagan Anglo-Saxon times). They can tell Christian burials because of the intact bodies (the Pagan Romans preferred to burn them).
 
Tenofovir said:
Why do people read tabloids like the Daily Mail?
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You Catholics should be able to work that out Tenofovir: wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust and envy, or the enjoyment of reading about others doing these. Not sure about gluttony - maybe once they are used to wrap fish and chips?
 
Kaninchen said:
It’s a case of journalistic ignorance. There’s a difference between ‘Britain’s first Anglo-Saxon Christian burial’ and ‘Britain’s first Christian burial’ (Christianity was present in what was to become England and Wales before the Anglo-Saxons and during pagan Anglo-Saxon times). They can tell Christian burials because of the intact bodies (the Pagan Romans preferred to burn them).
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Good point, as I am not as “up” on British history as I am on the history of my own country.
 
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