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Boniface orders felling of sacred Saxon oak
19th-century illustration, "Cutting Down a sacred Oak of the Saxons," drawn by H. Leutemann. During the 8th century A.D., missionaries like Boniface attempted to convert pagan Germanic tribes to Christianity.
Image ID: 000106
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Image size: 11.9 Mpixels (34 MB uncompressed) - 2978x3993 pixels (9.9x13.3 in / 25.2x33.8 cm at 300 ppi)
Image keywords: 8th-century, Christianity, Eon466, EonBudget, Europe, Germanic religion, Illustrations, Medieval, Middle Ages, People, Religion-Mythology, Saint Boniface, Saxons, Saxony, missionaries, paganism, polytheism, religion, saints, trees, H. Leutemann, John Clark Ridpath