April, 743 AD
Time, reflected Begiloc, like a wolf-pack in the forest, hurtles headlong, gathering speed towards an unknown destination. Too late for the onlooker when he realises he is the prey, the pack snapping at his tendons.
Not the case of Willibald who wasted no time in Bavaria and Thuringia. Far from him to plunge into converting and baptising, yet the pagans flocked to him, inspired to become Christians. When he arrived nothing arose there but a small church with heathen settlements all around, so he and his small band slept inside its wooden walls. Within six years he built a magnificent double abbey of stone, where visitors flocked to learn of his pilgrimage and of monasticism. As a result of the success of his unique missionary style, Boniface ordained him priest, then consec
