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==Fifth century (401-500)==
*403 "[[Synod of the Oak]]"
*404 Martyrdom of [[Telemachus]].
*406 At the age of 29 [[Euthymius the Great]] arrives in Jerusalem.
*455 Germanic Saxons and Angles conquer Britain, founding several independent kingdoms.
*459 [[Symeon the Stylite]]; Death of [[Auxilius of Ireland]].<ref group="note">St. [[Auxilius of Ireland]]: The date of death is also given as 454 or 455, see Sabine Baring-Gould, ''The Lives of the Saints'' (J. Hodges, 1898), 275.</ref>
*460 Balai, Syrian religious poet of Beroea (not a saint).
*461 [[Leo the Great]]; Death of the Holy Hierarch St. [[Patrick of Ireland|Patrick]], the Apostle of Ireland, at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland<ref group="note">When he came to Ireland, as its enlightener, it was a pagan country; when he ended his earthly life some thirty years later, about 461, the Faith of Christ was established in every corner." (Great Horologion) The work of St Patrick and his brethren has been called the most successful single missionary venture in the history of the Church.</ref>[[Image:Post-Roman Britannia ca.500 AD.jpg|right|thumb|Post-Roman Britain, ca.500 AD.]]
*463 ''c,'' [[Patapius of Thebes]].