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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading -St Boniface
DESCRIPTION:THE DESTRUCTION \nOF THE SAXON OAK \nBy Bishop Willibald of Eichstätt \n◊◊◊ \nMany of the people of Hesse were converted by Boniface to the Catholic \nfaith and confirmed by the grace of the spirit: and they received the laying on of \nhands. But some there were\, not yet strong of soul\, who refused to accept wholly \nthe teachings of the true faith. Some men sacrificed secretly\, some even openly\, \nto trees and springs. Some secretly practiced divining\, soothsaying\, and \nincantations\, and some openly. But others\, who were of sounder mind\, cast \naside all heathen profanation and did none of these things; and it was with the \nadvice and consent of these men that Boniface sought to fell a certain tree of \ngreat size at Geismar\, and called\, in the ancient speech of the region\, the oak of \nThor. \nThe man of God was surrounded by the servants of God. When he would \ncut down the tree\, behold a great throng of pagans who were there cursed him \nbitterly among themselves because he was the enemy of their gods. And when \nhe had cut into the trunk a little way\, a breeze sent by God stirred overhead\, and \nsuddenly the branching top of the tree was broken off\, and the oak in all its huge \nbulk fell to the ground. And it was broken into four parts\, as if by the divine will\, \nso that the trunk was divided into four huge sections without any effort of the \nbrethren who stood by. When the pagans who had cursed did see this\, they left \noff cursing and\, believing\, blessed God. Then the most holy priest took counsel \nwith the brethren: and he built from the wood of the tree an oratory\, and \ndedicated it to the holy apostle Peter.
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