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English Benedictine missionary Boniface (Wynfrid) is sent by Pope Gregory II to work with the Germanic people. He organizes many churches and becomes archbishop. In 725 he chops down the Donar Oak, spiritual symbol of Germanic spirituality, in his attack on heathen belief in the region. He is killed by a mob in 754.
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