Marjie - Let me be one of the 10 000 who will write to tell you about
Boniface chopping down Jupiter (sic)'s sacred oak at Geismar in Hesse. He
then used the timber to build an oratory in honour of St. Peter. This is
all written in Willibald's Life of St. Boniface, in Monumenta Germaniae
Historica Scriptorum Rerum Merovingicarum (I think vol. 4, ed. W. Levison);
there is an English translation in C. H. Talbot, The Anglo-Saxon
Missionaries in Germany (N.Y. 1954).
Bernadette
At 11:19 PM 6/5/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Greetings
>
>Didn't Boniface have something to do with chopping down oak trees? I've a
>vague recollection from something I read, that he chopped down a sacred oak
>and so incensed the locals that they bumped him off. Does this sound
>familiar to anyone??
>
>Marjie
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