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Al. 68, 718; Chrys. i. 482 et saepe, al. For tuus, 'Iren. Omn. Haer. vii, 27. Omn. Haer. vii. 20. Haer. i. Pref. 2. Haer. iii. 11. 7, 9.
It must, therefore, be considered doubtful whether the Arabs had a true star-god. +718+. A well-defined instance of such a god is the Avestan Tistrya. His origin as an object of nature appears plainly in his functions he is especially a rain-god, and, as such, a source of all blessings. Alongside of him stand three less well defined stellar Powers.
Other Irish missionaries penetrated into the forests of Thuringia and Bavaria. The German church looks back, however, to an English missionary as its real founder. In 718, about a hundred years after the death of St. Columban, St. Boniface, an English monk, was sent by the pope as an apostle to the Germans.
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