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St Boniface And Donar’s Oak  Christmas is characterized by a fir tree overloaded with decorations, glittering colored balls, iridescent strings of silver or gold tinsel simulating an improbable snowfall. Where did the idea of cheering up the Christmas season with a fir tree, under which to place gifts for loved ones, spring from? Against the backdrop of eighth-century Germany, in the district of Geismar, a monk and missionary born in Britain, called Winfrid, was engrossed in preaching the Nativity to a tribe of Germanic pagans. The monk - later to become St Boniface - tried to convince the pagans that the oak tree dedicated to Donar or Thor was not at all sacred and inviolable, and to prove his point, he took an axe and cut one down. The poor tree was felled and crushed all vegetation in its path as it came crashing down, except for a small fir tree, that remained ‘the last man standing’. 

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