Explorers in the New world before and after Columbus and the story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay . ans whopoured down upon England and Ireland, driven thither,according to French historians (De Mezeray, Histoire deCharlemagne, Eginhard, etc., Paris, 1643), to avenge them-selves on Christian clergy and churches for the persecutionsthey had suffered, and for the destruction of their temples andidols by the Christian armies of Charlemagne, who invadedSaxony 772 (Carl. Mag. imp., Du Chesne, 782). De-termining that the Saxons should be Christian, Charlemagneused means which Christian

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Explorers in the New world before and after Columbus and the story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay . ans whopoured down upon England and Ireland, driven thither,according to French historians (De Mezeray, Histoire deCharlemagne, Eginhard, etc., Paris, 1643), to avenge them-selves on Christian clergy and churches for the persecutionsthey had suffered, and for the destruction of their temples andidols by the Christian armies of Charlemagne, who invadedSaxony 772 (Carl. Mag. imp., Du Chesne, 782). De-termining that the Saxons should be Christian, Charlemagneused means which Christianity abhors ordering all whorefused baptism to be put to death, and in one day be-heading no fewer than 4,500 pagans. The population fledinto Denmark and the North, compelled to seek otherhomes. De Mezeray says :—r These infuriated banished pagans and their descendants,burning with a cruel desire to avenge their gods and theirliberty, made continual raids upon all the Christian nationswithin reach. We read in Hallidays Danish Kingdom of Dublin thatKing Olaf the White and the Ostmen who founded the. 4 I i ? NaTIONALE, PaRIS.

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