In your parishes, it is said, the evil of drunkenness has greatly increased…This evil indeed is peculiar to the heathen and to our race. For neither the Franks, nor the Gauls, nor the Lombards, nor the Romans, nor the Greeks have it.


letter to Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 747; in The English Correspondence of St Boniface (1911)

St Boniface Quotes

In your parishes, it is said, the evil of drunkenness has greatly increased…This evil indeed is peculiar to the heathen and to our race. For...

In your parishes, it is said, the evil of drunkenness has greatly increased…This evil indeed is peculiar to the heathen and to our race. For...

In your parishes, it is said, the evil of drunkenness has greatly increased…This evil indeed is peculiar to the heathen and to our race. For...

In your parishes, it is said, the evil of drunkenness has greatly increased…This evil indeed is peculiar to the heathen and to our race. For...