History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.
already seen die. "Ah! let us live with you in this Gaul, where we now are, since we are destined to live with each other in hea ...
Sigisbert separated from him at the foot of the St. Gothard, crossed eastward over the Oberalp to the source of the Rhine, and l ...
We must distinguish especially three stages: 1) the preparatory labors of Italian, French, and Scotch-Irish missionaries; 2) the ...
§ 25. Boniface, the Apostle of Germany. I. Bonifacius: Epistolae et Sermones, first ed. by Serrarius, Mogunt. 1605, then by Würd ...
of St. Peter with the most stringent oath of fealty to the Pope similar to that which was imposed on the Italian or suburban bis ...
preferred Cologne, but the clergy there feared his disciplinary severity. He aided the sons of Charles Martel in reducing the Ga ...
IV. Keep the Sabbath and go to church-to pray, but not to prattle. Give alms according to your power, for alms extinguish sins a ...
defended clerical marriage).^121 He encountered from them a most determined opposition, especially in Bavaria. In connection wit ...
the Benedictines in Monte Casino, met Boniface in Rome, joined him in Germany (a.d. 740) and became bishop of Eichstädt in Bavar ...
§ 27. The Conversion of the Saxons. Charlemagne and Alcuin. The Heliand, and the Gospel-Harmony. Funk: Die Unterwerfung der Sach ...
The war of Charlemagne against the Saxons was the first ominous example of a bloody crusade for the overthrow of heathenism and ...
A little later (about 870) Otfried, a Franconian, educated at Fulda and St. Gall, produced another poetic harmony of the Gospels ...
neighboring countries. By the rivers they penetrated far into the countries, burning and destroying what they could not carry aw ...
religious consecration. As, on the one side, characters developed which actually went beyond the established religion, longing f ...
with no other effect than that of wonder. The first Christian missionary who visited them and worked among them was Willebrord. ...
829 king Harald was again expelled and retired to Riustri, a possession on the mouth of the Weser, which the emperor had given t ...
said that the greatest miracle in his life would be, if God ever made a thoroughly pious man out of him.^130 Most prominent, how ...
From the conquest of that country and its union with Denmark, the Danish mission received a vigorous impulse. King Swen himself ...
Christians. Accordingly Ansgar went to Sweden in 829, accompanied by Witmar. While crossing the Baltic, the vessel was overtaken ...
disappeared. In the Northern part, however, the old faith still continued to live on, partly because it was difficult for the mi ...
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