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The Arians soon became Catholics, including, by 700, even the Lombards in northern Italy. There remained immense areas of Europe, however, to which the Gospel had not yet been brought. St. Gregory I evangelized the Anglo-Saxons, who in turn sent missionaries to northwestern Europe—St. Wilfrid and St. Willibrord to what is now the Netherlands and St. Boniface to Hesse, Thuringia, and Bavaria. In consequence of Boniface’s work in Germany in the 8th century, a mission to Scandinavia was initiated by St. Ansgar (801–865), and the mission reached Iceland by 996. In the 10th century the mission from Germany moved eastward ...(100 of 123600 words)