Anskar - The Apostle of the North, 801-865 - Translated from the Vita Anskarii by Bishop Rimbert, His Fellow Missionary and Successor

This series is designed to include the lives of the best known pioneer missionaries to whose labours the conversion of Europe to the Christian faith was due. Anskar was a good man in the best and truest of the term. In the character presented to us by his biographer we have a singularly attractive combination of transparent humility, unflinching courage, complete self-devotion and unwavering belie...