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Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20228 min read
Dissolute Elisabeth and Her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...


Hans Faber
Apr 10, 202215 min read
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This blog post isn't about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish...


Hans Faber
Sep 10, 202113 min read
Like Father, Unlike Son – Un saint frison en France
The Battle of Tours in 732 was a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the biggest empires in...


Hans Faber
Sep 23, 201932 min read
Magnus’ Choice. The Origins of the Frisian Freedom
According to medieval legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the citizens of Rome. The Pope was...


Hans Faber
Jul 19, 201944 min read
The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings
Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...


Frans Riemersma
Oct 27, 20188 min read
Liudger, the first Frisian apostle
Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...


Hans Faber
Jul 1, 201834 min read
One of history’s most enlightening hikes. That of Bernlef
This blog post isn't about the West-Frisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...


Frans Riemersma
Jun 9, 20186 min read
Finally, King Redbad made his point in the European Commission - via Facebook
“I can not live without the company of my forefathers”, Redbad said in an interview in 718. In 2018 this sentence caused turmoil in the...
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