Saint Boniface

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(born 675, Wessex, Eng. — died June 5, 754, Dokkum, Frisia; feast day June 5) English missionary and reformer. Originally named Wynfrith, he became a Benedictine monk and then a priest. He made two attempts to convert the Frisian Saxons; in 718 he journeyed to Rome, where Pope Gregory II entrusted him with a mission to the pagans east of the Rhine and gave him the name Boniface. In 722 at Hesse he founded the first of many Benedictine monasteries. He was active for 10 years (725 – 735) in Thuringia. He established four bishoprics in Bavaria, paving the way for its incorporation into the Carolingian empire. He convened five synods (740 – 745) to reform the Frankish clergy and Irish missionaries and a council (747) to reform the entire Frankish kingdom. He was killed by a band of Frisians while reading the Bible to recent converts.

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Boniface, Saint (Crediton, Devon, 672-754, Dokkum, Holland), often called ‘Der Apostel der Deutschen’. St Boniface, whose Saxon name was Wynfrith (Winfrid), studied at Exeter and Winchester. In 716 he was authorized by Pope Gregory II to go to Germany as a missionary to the Frisians. After a brief return to England he spent his life from 718 onwards in Germany, converting the heathens in the north, but also organizing the Church all over Germany. He was consecrated bishop in 722 and archbishop of Mainz in 739. He established a number of bishoprics, including Salzburg, Regensburg, Freising, Passau, and Würzburg, and founded the Abbey of Fulda. In 754, in the course of a further mission to the Frisians, he was murdered with his companions at Dokkum. His remains were buried in Fulda. His work of ecclesiastical organization in Germany provided a foundation for the political and educational work of Charlemagne (see Karl I, der Grosse) a generation later.

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