Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...and Ecgbert of York, Bishop Daniel, several abbesses and specially Eadburh or Bugge, abbess of Minster, his kinswoman Leobgyth, and her sisters in religion at Wimborne, Tecla and Cynehild. He and they ask for one another's prayers, he tells them of his wants, asking for a copy of the prophetical books of the Bible in large handwriting, because his sight was bad, for Bede's minor works, and other books; he thanks them for their gifts, and sends them presents in return. In spite of much opposition Boniface succeeded in reforming the church in Thuringia. Gregory III. made him an archbishop, still without a see, and papal legate, HisEngHsh and he was the valued friend of the house of Pippin ieiiowof Heristal, of Charles Martel, Carloman, and Pippin workersthe Short, whom, in accordance with the command of Pope Zachary, he crowned king of the Franks at Soissons in 751. The power of the Frankish house in Southern and Central Germany owed much to the influence of Boniface, and there, as in Frisia, Christian missionaries and Frankish rulers worked in full accord. This, however, only concerns us here in so far as it explains the dominant position which Boniface held in Germany. He founded four bishoprics in Bavaria, held councils of the German province, and in 743 fixed his archiepiscopal see at Mainz. Many men and women of the monastic order came to him from England, and specially from his own West Saxon land, to help him in his work of evangelisation and ecclesiastical reform. One party under the charge of a priest-monk named Witbert seems to have been sent out from Glastonbury, and Witbert in writing to the convent to announce their safe arrival asks them to send his news to Abbess Tetta at Wimborne. Tetta had a deep interest in these missions, ..
