“You seem to glow with the salvation-bringing fire which our Lord came to send upon the earth.” —Gregory II to Boniface His first job as a missionary was a failure. Wynfrith (or Winfrid) had wanted to be a traveling evangelist ever since missionary monks had visited his family’s home when he was five years old. He’d given up his noble parents’ secular dreams for him back in Wessex, England. And he’d given up a successful life as a Benedictine monk—having