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As Advent begins and the Advent Calendars come out and the Christmas Trees and decorations go up, here is the legend of the first Christmas Tree and the miracle performed by the Devonian Saint, St. Boniface in Bavaria in Germany....
ST. BONIFACE AND THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE Crediton, Devon, birthplace of Winfrith who became St. Boniface in c672 AD. As an Anglo-Saxon monk he was sent to do missionary work in Germany in the Frankish Kingdom - and began the first organised Christianity in Germany, and today is the patron saint of both Germany and the Netherlands. Legend has it that in Bavaria, Germany St.Boniface saw pagans worshipping around an oak tree on the winter solstice, whereupon he grabbed an axe and cut the oak down - at that moment in the place of the oak grew a fir tree grew. In awe the pagans were converted to Christianity, with the evergreen tree seen as the everlasting love of God. At the next winter solstice the tree was hung with decorations to worship Christmas. See on the Map-Olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=St._Boniface_and _the_first_Christmas_Tree
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