His writings provide invaluable and encyclopedic knowledge for the Middle Ages. He is known for important efforts to resist barbarism and heresy in Spain, found schools and convents and evangelize Jews.
Organs begin to be used in churches.
Church bells are used to call people to worship and to give the hours to the monks in the monasteries. Martin is seized and banished to Crimea and dies. He is last pope to be venerated as a martyr. Hilde was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman whose early years are shrouded in mystery, although we know she became a nun at the age of 33. Commissioned to found monasteries by St. Aidan, her reputation as abbess was so great that Whitby was chosen for the Synod in AD 664, where the Roman style of Christianity was preferred to the Celtic, a decision that has repercussions even today.