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The illustration, from 1905, shows St. Boniface holding a crucifix in one hand and an axe in another alongside a felled tree. “Donar’s Oak” (Thor’s Oak) was a huge oak tree in Geismar ...
Mother Earth is man’s home. Thus, man ought to live in harmony with nature. The Celtics, Frisians and Saxons of Europe in the Middle Ages did not only take care of nature. They revered ...
Horrified by what he saw as blasphemy, the all-action St Boniface grabbed the nearest axe and hacked down the tree. As he did this he called to the pagans to see the power of his God over theirs.
St. Boniface, as well as being known as a great bishop and evangelizer, s the founder of the use of a Christmas tree to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child.
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