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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Boniface
		In 732 Boniface wrote again and stated among other things that the work was becoming too much for one man. Gregory III congratulated him on his success and praised his zeal, in recognition sending him the pallium, and making him an archbishop, but still without a fixed see.
		That Boniface had anything to do with the dis-establishment of the old royal family and the introduction of a new one cannot be proved.
		It seems that Boniface's last act as Archbishop of Mainz was the repudiation of the claim of the Archbishop of Cologne to the diocese of Utrecht.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02656a.htm (0 words)

	Saint Boniface - LoveToKnow 1911
		SAINT BONIFACE (680-754), the apostle of Germany, whose real name was Wynfrith, was born of a good Saxon family at Crediton or Kirton in Devonshire.
		At the instance of Pippin, Boniface secured Adalbert's condemnation at the synod of Soissons in 744; but he, and Clement, a Scottish missionary and a heretic on predestination, continued to find followers in spite of legate, council and pope, for three or four years more.
		Between 746 and 748 Boniface was made bishop of Mainz, and became metropolitan over the Rhine bishoprics and Utrecht, as well as over those he had established in Germany - thus founding the pre-eminence of the see of Mainz.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Saint_Boniface (1020 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		Boniface pondered over her words, and the whole while of the journey he was absorbed in thought.
		Saint Boniface became bishop of the city of Firentium (Florence), situated to the north of Rome (Tuscany region).
		The elder revealed to Saint Gregory that it was necessary for him, after praying in Rome to Saints Boniface and Aglaida, to proceed on to Alexandria and there accept the dignity of bishop, and thereafter encourage the faith in Christ in the city of Negran, in the Ethiopian empire in Southern Arabia.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/december/19th.cfm (1809 words)

	Saint Boniface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 723, Boniface felled the holy oak tree dedicated to Thor near the present-day town of Fritzlar in northern Hesse.
		Boniface's destruction of the indigenous Germanic faith and holy sites was, thus, an important part of the Frankish campaign against the Saxons.
		Boniface balanced this support and attempted to maintain some independence, however, by attaining the support of the papacy and of the Agilolfing rulers of Bavaria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Boniface (1129 words)

	"Saint Boniface" by Ken Garnett
		Boniface learned from his early failure well, he had gone in the first instance to Frisia in the time-honoured manner of the Celtic missionaries, i.e.
		Boniface would later be advised to moderate violent confrontation in evangelism by Binhop Daniel, who advocated the power of reason and debate.
		In conclusion Boniface was not only a successful evangelist and converter of a vast number of people but he also succeeded in reforming the Church where he found it lacking through synods.
	www.medievalchurch.org.uk /article_boniface.html (1256 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Saint Boniface (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint.
		Events Saint Boniface fells Thors Oak near Fritzlar, marking the decisive event in the Christianization of the northern Germanic tribes The worlds first mechanical clock is allegedly built in China.
		Boniface succeeded to Zosimus's difficulties with the African Church regarding appeals to Rome and, in particular, the case of Apiarius.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saint-Boniface (3490 words)

	Saint Boniface (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Boniface again set out in 718 visited Rome and was commissioned by Pope Gregory II to evangelize in Germany and reorganize church there.
		Boniface had been created a bishop Gregory II and after the deposition of bishop of Mainz in 745 Boniface was granted the metropolitan see.
		Saint Boniface is a francophone district of Winnipeg Manitoba.
	www.freeglossary.com /Saint_Boniface (716 words)

	Saint Boniface - Encyclopedia.com
		Saint Boniface, former city and historic community, SE Man., Canada, on the Red River opposite Winnipeg.
		Boniface was born in the town of Crediton in...
		The heretic saint: Guglielma of Bohemia, Milan, and Brunate (1).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-StBonifa.html (1004 words)

	Haiti Health Care - Medical Help for Haiti - St. Boniface Haiti Foundation
		The Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer organization.
		Boniface Hospital, in the south-central region of Fond des Blancs, is a private, non-profit effort to help meet this need.
		Boniface Hospital is a project of the Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation of Randolph, Massachusetts, with a satellite office in Jacksonville, Florida.
	www.haitihealth.org (0 words)

	St. Boniface of Mainz - Catholic Online
		Boniface saw that he was going to get no help from the local clergy and monks, but he had learned in Friesland he could not spread God's word alone.
		Boniface was called upon to lend his own support to Frankish Church which was also sadly in need of reform.
		Boniface is known as the Apostle of Germany.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=29 (1568 words)

	SAINT BONIFACE (680-754) - Online Information article about SAINT BONIFACE (680-754)
		science he held his own against' Boniface, and was canonized after his death.
		June 754 he and his companions were massacred by the heathen near Dockum.
		St Boniface has well been called the proconsul of the papacy.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BONIFACE_SAINT_680_754_.html (1362 words)

	Saint Boniface
		Archdiocese; the chief ecclesiastical division of the Canadian West, so-called after the patron saint of the German soldiers who were among its first settlers.
		On 22 Sept., 1871, the See of St. Boniface was raised to the rank of an archbishopric, while, out of the north-western portion of its territory, a new diocese was being carved, with headquarters at St. Albert, near Edmonton.
		The northeastern part of this area further became in 1890 the Vicariate-Apostolic of the Saskatchewan, and this arrangement left to the Archdiocese of St. Boniface 109° W. long.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/st_boniface.html (1043 words)

	Mirago : Society: Religion and Spirituality: Christianity: People: Saints: B: Saint Boniface
		Saint Boniface, Archbishop of Mentz, Apostle of Germany, and Martyr - From Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
		Boniface and the Conversion of Germany - A letter from Pope Gregory II to Boniface; "Oath of Boniface to the Papacy;" and a short life of Boniface by Willibald.
		Boniface - Born Winfrid, a native of England, Benedictine monk, the Apostle of Germany, martyred in 755.
	www.mirago.co.uk /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top%2fSociety%2fReligion_and_Spirituality%2fChristianity%2fPeople%2fSaints%2fB%2fSaint_Boniface (284 words)

	Saint Boniface, Fort Smith Arkansas
		While the original Saint Boniface Church, a small structure in the center of the 200 block of N. 18th street, was much loved, it soon gave way to its own growing membership.
		The old Saint Joseph's Hall, which stood at the northwest corner of the parking lot, was declared unsafe and torn down the early part of 1961.
		Although German names are still prevalent at Saint Boniface, the present 550 family membership is as wonderfully varied as the world in which we live.
	www.saintbonifacecc.com /churchhistory.htm (1926 words)

	St. Boniface
		Saint Boniface, in a council in Germany condemned them both in 742; Carloman caused them to be confined in close prison, and the sentence of our saint and his council was afterwards confirmed by the pope in a synod at Rome in 745.
		By the saint's pious discourses, his heart was daily more and more inflamed with divine love, till despising the world in the height of its glory, he recommended his estates and his son Drogo to Pepin the Short, his younger brother, and disengaged himself from all the ties of the world.
		Boniface had several years before founded a monastery at Fridistar in honor of Saint Peter; another at Hamenburgh in honor of St. Michael: and one at Ordorfe in honor of the same archangel, in all which the monks gained their livelihood by the labor of their hands.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/BONIFACE.htm (3414 words)

	Church History - St. Boniface
		As a boy Boniface came under the influence of the fl monks who visited his home, nor was it long before he had decided on the religious life.
		Thither Boniface proceeded; he found the Bavarian Church in a flourishing condition, similarly Alemannia, but Thuringia, though regarded by Rome as a Christian district, proved to be anything but Catholic, despite the heroic labors of St. Kilian (686—689).
		Under the new order Boniface continued to enforce laws ‘forbidding the clergy to hunt, shoot, or carry arms, but he was not successful in establishing appeals for local bishops to the Holy See, or in securing the right of the Pope in the investiture of Frankish bishops.
	www.cin.org /books/dunney8.html (5466 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Willibald: The Life of St. Boniface
		Boniface in his humility hastily declined, answering that he was unworthy of the episcopal office, that so great a responsibility ought not to be imposed upon him at so young an age and that he had not yet reached the age of fifty required by canon law.
		The saint, who had dedicated himself to God's service from his earliest childhood and was therefore ill able to brook the insult offered to his Lord, compelled Duke Odilo and his subjects to forsake their evil, false, and heretical doctrines and put them on their guard against the deceitfulness of immoral priests.
		On the saint's advice the unlawful practice of concubinage among the layfolk was suppressed while the sacrilegious marriages of the clergy were annulled and the sinful parties separated.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/willibald-boniface.html (11320 words)

	Crediton, UK National Shrine of Saint Boniface
		Boniface was struck down by a sword which pierced the holy book he raised to shield his head.
		754/5 Boniface martyred at Dokkum in Frisia and buried at Fulda in Hesse.
		The story of Saint Boniface continues to be lived out as people from different Christian traditions, all walks of life and the various countries of the world are welcomed in.
	www.crediton.co.uk /tourism/boniface_crediton.html (1231 words)

	St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery
		Boniface Catholic Cemetery is located on Chicago's North side, at Clark Street and Lawrence Avenue, four blocks north of Graceland.
		The cemetery is named for Saint Boniface, who died in 754 A.D. after 36 years as a missionary.
		Saint Boniface was known as "The Apostle of Germany".
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/stboniface (77 words)

	Saint Boniface cenotaph (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pope Gregory II granted him the name "Boniface" in honor of an earlier saint.
		Boniface travelled to Thuringia, Germany, and began the conversion of the populace.
		Boniface was killed at the age of 73 in an attack on his camp.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/stboniface/boniface.html (115 words)

	Saints of June 5
		In 731, having established several monasteries and dioceses, Boniface was sent the pallium by Pope Saint Gregory III and constituted metropolitan of Germany beyond the Rhine.
		Boniface founded the abbey of Fulda with his young disciple, Saint Sturmi, and Charles Martel died, leaving the way open for Boniface to reach the ears of Pepin and Carloman, Martel's successors.
		Boniface is considered the apostle of Germany (Bavaria, Franconia, Hesse, Thuringia) and the Netherlands (Freisland), Amanburch, Fritzlar, and Fulda.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0605.htm (1898 words)

	Saint Boniface (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Boniface's destruction of the indigenous Germanic faith and holy sites was, thus, an important part of the Frankish campaign against the Saxons.
		Boniface balanced this support and attempted to maintain some independence, however, by attaining the support of the papacy and of the Agilolfing rulers of Bavaria.
		It is called Saint Boniface Cathedral and is a landmark in the city.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DBoniface (1058 words)

	Saint Boniface Martyr, Apostle of Germany
		Saint Boniface was born into a Christian family of noble rank about the year 680.
		Pope Gregory III sent Boniface the pallium in 731, appointing him archbishop and metropolitan of all Germany beyond the Rhine, with authority to found new bishoprics.
		Boniface was one of the first to fall; his companions shared his fate.
	www.thesacredheart.com /sts/bonifac.htm (667 words)

	St. Boniface
		Many of the tales of Anglo-Saxon England relate to Saint Boniface, after whom St. Boniface Down, the highest hill on the Island, is named.
		Saint Boniface was born 'Wynfryth' between 675 - 680 AD, probably in Devon.
		He was then given the name Boniface, meaning 'Doer of Good', and became Apostle to Germany, where he is credited with creating the Christian Church, and indirectly inventing the Christmas tree.
	www.stbonifacecepri.iow.sch.uk /stbon.htm (189 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Boniface
		In Saxony, Boniface encountered a tribe worshipping a Norse deity in the form of a huge oak tree.
		Boniface walked up to the tree, removed his shirt, took up an axe, and without a word he hacked down the six foot wide wooden god.
		Saint Boniface: Tamer of Tribes, by Joseph Dunney
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb15.htm (593 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of September 4 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Long-venerated in Rome, Saint Candida is said to have been the first to welcome Saint Peter to Naples as he passed through on his way to Rome, and to have been miraculously cured of an illness by the apostle.
		As the great-granddaughter of Charles Martel, Saint Ida was reared in the Merovingian court.
		Saint Rosalia, a hermitess at Palermo, is honored because of a miracle that occurred five centuries after her death: her relics are said to have rescued the city from the throes of a plague.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0904.htm (1617 words)

	St. Boniface
		Boniface, or Winfrid, to give him his baptismal name, was born into a Christian family of noble rank, probably at Crediton in Devonshire, about the year 680.
		Boniface declined to become Willibrord's coadjutor and successor as bishop of Utrecht, saying that his commission had been general, "to the heathen," and he could not be limited to any one diocese.
		Boniface appealed to the English monasteries and convents, and their response was so wholehearted that for several years bands of monks, schoolmasters, and nuns came over to place themselves under his direction.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/BONIFAC.htm (2471 words)

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