Christmas Miracle of Saint Boniface

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Amazing story! St. Boniface, pray for us! A blessed Christmas to you Adrian! 🎄🙏

[@MagdalenaIsaiah431]

Brave and brilliant St. Boniface pray for us to be as fearless for JESUS as you were!💙🙏💙✝️✝️✝️💛♥️💛 Merry Christmas in Heaven🌲✨

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✝️🕊❤️‍🔥 merry Christmas 🌲

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I like this one

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Thank you brother for sharing your gifts. Merry Christmas. God bless you always.

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❤ 🎉 ✝️

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The St. Boniface Legend is a modern myth which originated from a short story by one Henry van Dyke called “The Oak of Geismar” published in 1891. While an early medieval text does describe the legend of Boniface chopping down an oak tree, there is zero mention of any fir tree or of Boniface saying what he allegedly said regarding said fir tree. That bit appears to be a very modern addition to the legend. The text also does not reference any child being sacrificed - another more modern addition. The origins of Christmas trees are rooted in present-day Germany and date to the 15th century. The first mention of Christmas trees is in an Alsace ordinance in 1561. Almost no early Germanic pagans thought pine trees were sacred, let alone associated with Christmas. Germanic tribes believed the oak was sacred, not the evergreen tree. The Christmas tree morphed over from so-called paradise trees. There were many allegorical-type plays done in the Middle Ages at various markets. One such play was called the Paradise Play, performed to celebrate the feast day of Adam and Eve, which fell on Christmas Eve. In the dead of winter, not a lot of trees are available, so the “tree of knowledge” was represented by an evergreen fir with apples tied to its branches. There is documentation of trees decorated with wool thread, straw, apples, nuts and pretzels. After the play, the treats would be eaten. The practice likely gave way to having trees in the house at Christmas. In 1419 for example, a guild in Freiburg put up a tree decorated with apples, flour-paste wafers, tinsel and gingerbread. The Christmas tree is not historically attested any earlier than this time period.

[@weissblau]

As a German I have to agree with you. The "Paradieserl" (paradise tree) can still be found with some, especially in rural Bavaria. And we still decorate the Tannenbaum with straw-stars, little red apples, Lebkuchen (gingerbread)-pretzels, walnuts, and. starting in the 20th century, foil-covered chocolates. The men especially love to eat the chocolates off the tree. The often garishly decorated trees, with often unsuitable decorations are an American thing. The classic German ones, from the 19th and first part of the 20th century were respectful and reflected holy beauty. The evergreen tree is a symbol of faithfulness and everlasting life, that is about the only connection to the sacred German oak, still the national emblem signifying faithfulness. But then, Americans love to make up stories as they want them, look at what Disney did with our beautiful fairy tales. The Truth is the only way to Salvation.

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Prior to the Missionary work of Saint Boniface, the Christmas Tree associated with Jesus Christ, in a spiritual/biblical sense, also has it's origins in Holy Scripture. There are references to "the root of Jesse," (Isaiah 11: 1-2; Isaiah 11: 10; Apocalypse 22: 16) References to the "tree of life," prophecy about the arrival of the Messiah, Jesus Christ (Isaiah 37: 21; Isaiah 55: 12-13; Isaiah 60: 13; 2 Kings 19: 30; Apocalypse 2: 7; Apocalypse 22: 2; Apocalypse 22: 14) The ancestral genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospels (Matthew 1: 1-25; Luke 3: 21-38)