sentences:  "By means of these schools", says Bede, "the Church continued ever afterwards pure in the faith and free from heresy".In the 6th century, Dubricius/Dyfrig, who was born in Herefordshire, of a Welsh mother, founded a monastery at Hentland and then one at Moccas.The earliest monastic site in the United Kingdom appears to have been at Beckery, near Glastonbury.