CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES
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steady process of conversion to Christianity went on amidst these German and Slavonic tribes.
It will be interesting to English-speaking readers to note that the most zealous and successful missionaries among the Saxons and Frisians came from England. Christianity was twice planted
