Publisher's Synopsis
This series is designed to include the lives of the best known pioneer missionaries to whose labours the conversion of Europe to the Christian faith was due. Anskar was a good man in the best and truest of the term. In the character presented to us by his biographer we have a singularly attractive combination of transparent humility, unflinching courage, complete self-devotion and unwavering belief in the a loving and overruling providence. Here is presented the entire life and work of Anskar - The Apostle of the North.
