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Radbod was probably more anti-Frank than anti-Christian. The Vita
Vulframmi, written shortly after that saint's death, describes R. as being
prepared to accept Christianity and actually stepping back from the
baptismal font when he learned that he would not be with his ancestors in
heaven - and, moreover, that in the afterlife he would have to hobnob with
all sorts of riffraff instead.
Bernadette Filotas
>
> Willibrord (d. 739) The Northumbrian Willibrord was a child oblate
> at Ripon and spent 12 years studying at Irish monasteries. In 690 he
> and eleven other English monks set out for Frisia as missionaries.
> He founded the see of Utrecht and a number of monasteries, only to
> have most of his missionary work undone when the anti-Christian (and
> anti-Frankish) ruler Radbod regained control of the territory. So W.
> started again, and was successful enough to get the title "apostle of
> the Frisians" (although one wonders when the area really did go
> Christian; they seem to have killed Boniface with great gusto in 754).
>
>
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