Saints & Icons

Saint Alfred the Great ✠ Book I: The Seeds of the Kingdom ✠- The Child of Wantage (c. 849–856) In the middle of the ninth century, a pall of dread hung over Christian England. The once-flourishing kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons—Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, and Wessex—stood in peril from waves of pagan invaders. Churches lay in…