Patrick inspired Pope Gregory I, or Gregory the Great, to spread
Christianity. Gregory asked monks to become missionaries (MIH⚫
shuh⚫ NEHR eez)-people who are sent out to teach their religion.
In 597, Gregory sent 40 monks to Britain to teach Christianity. Other
monks spread Christianity, so that by 1050, most Western Europeans
had become Catholic Christians.
The Contributions of Monks and Nuns
Monks and monasteries provided schools and hospitals. They taught
carpentry and weaving, and they developed improvements in farming.
Many monks copied Christian writings as well as Roman and Greek
works. They also made illuminations, which are manuscripts
decorated with beautiful lettering and miniature religious paintings.
These monks helped preserve knowledge of the classical and early
Christian worlds.
Monks lived in communities headed by abbots (A buhtz). Women
called nuns lived in their own monasteries called convents. Convents
were headed by abbesses (A buhs ihs). Take notes on this passage please