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Shepherds

Lowly Shepherds

22 December 2022 By David Trounce

Lowly Shepherds - Sermo Humilis

Jesus' birth was announced by angelic choirs. It was also greeted by shepherds, to whom the angels first announced the birth of the Christ. Why would the news go to shepherds first? Commentators commonly note that shepherds were not well-regarded in first-century … [Read more...] about Lowly Shepherds

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.