Editing History of Guernsey (section)

===The arrival of Christianity===

During their migration to [[Brittany]], [[Britons (Celtic people)|Britons]] occupied the ''Lenur'' islands (the former name of the Channel Islands<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A590302 |title=Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK |work=BBC |access-date=10 October 2007}}</ref>) including ''Sarnia'' or ''Lisia'' (Guernsey) and ''Angia'' (Jersey). It was formerly thought that the island's original name was ''Sarnia'', but recent research indicates that this might have been the [[Latin]] name for [[Sark]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlY6unhtCEAC&q=but+recent+research+indicates+that+this+might+have+been+the+Latin+name+for+Sark&pg=PA45|title=The Channel Islands}}</ref> (''Sarnia'' nonetheless remains the island's traditional designation.) Travelling from the [[Kingdom of Gwent]], Saint [[Samson of Dol|Sampson]], later the abbot of [[Dol-de-Bretagne|Dol]] in Brittany, is credited with the introduction of Christianity to Guernsey.<ref name=HoG>Marr, J., ''The History of Guernsey – the Bailiwick's story'', Guernsey Press (2001).</ref>

A chapel, dedicated to St Magloire, stood in the Vale. St [[Magloire]] was a nephew of St Samson of Dol, and was born about the year 535. The chapel in his name was mentioned in a bull of Pope Adrian IV as being in the patronage of [[Mont Saint-Michel]], in Normandy; all traces of the chapel have gone. While the chapel would probably be of a much later date, St Magloire, the British [[missionary]], may well have set up a centre of Christian worship before A.D. 600.

Somewhere around A.D. 968, from the Benedictine monastery of [[Mont Saint-Michel]], came to Guernsey to establish a community in the North of the Island. The Priory of Mont Saint-Michel was a dependency of the famous Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel