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...church out of the ruins of the Caesars. The ravages of the Huns and the Vandels had made Germany more than other countres the home of desolation. Boniface, fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things, was a young child in one of the cloisters of southern Wessex. He had shown great capacity for study, but his religious nature soon drove him to wider and nobler fields. He took up the cause of Rome in Friesland, but soon felt that he must go to Rome and there obtain the papal sanction for his work. In the Eternal City...