This series is designed to include the lives of the best known pioneer
missionaries to whose labours the conversion of Europe to the Christian
faith was due. Anskar was a good man in the best and truest of the term.
In the character presented to us by his biographer we have a singularly
attractive combination of transparent humility, unflinching courage,
complete self-devotion and unwavering belief in the a loving and
overruling providence. Here is presented the entire life and work of
Anskar - The Apostle of the North.