... Council of Tours, away down south, ordained that every bishop should preach both in the Romance and the Teutonic languages. The Franks preserved their German speech four hundred years after the conquest.* Charlemagne was a German ; his ...

... Council of Tours in 567. For Houston, the birth of Christ remains one of the most powerful stories for this time of year. One among many "Wondrous Child" myths that have arisen in cultures around the world, "it tells," she says, "of the ...