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Lullusfest, the oldest folk festival in
Germany, marked its 1,160th birthday in 2012. The festival celebrates the founding of the city of Bad Hersfeld. Founded more than 1,275 years ago, the city still reveres St Lullus, who left Malmesbury in the 730s on a mission to convert the German tribes to
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confirmed him in 753 as bishop of Mainz and in 754 he became archbishop, as Saint
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