HOW GERMANY WAS WON -- THE FIRST TIME



(Friday) In short -- monks.

Chris Armstrong: "Irony" seems a concept invented for such a situation as this: The man historian Christopher Dawson once called the most influential Englishman who ever lived is the patron saint of … Germany.

And, as journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto has recently reminded us, the 60th anniversary of D-Day is also the 1250th anniversary of this man's death."

Read Chris Armstrong's article on St Boniface -- aka "Winfrith from Essex".

He's got his own webpage, too. And the tourism people in Crediton would like you to be interested in St Boniface as well.