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| | |  Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Saint Boniface - Boniface and the Carolingians
The support of the Frankish Mayors of the Palace (maior domos) and later, the early Pippinid and Carolingian rulers, was important to Boniface's program of forcible conversion. The Christian Frankish leaders desired to defeat their rival power, the Heathen Saxons, and to take the Saxon lands for their growing empire. Boniface's destruction of the indigenous Germanic faith and holy sites was an important part of the Frankish campaign.
Boniface balanced this support and attempted to maintain some independence, however, by attaining the ...
See also:Saint Boniface, Saint Boniface - Early Life, Saint Boniface - First Mission to Frisia, Saint Boniface - Thor's Oak and the Conversion of the Northern German Tribes, Saint Boniface - Boniface and the Carolingians, Saint Boniface - Last Mission to Frisia, Saint Boniface - Trivia Read more here: » Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Saint Boniface - Boniface and the Carolingians |
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Saint Boniface - Thor's Oak and the Conversion of the Northern German Tribes Winfrid again set out in 718, visited Rome, and was commissioned in 719 by Pope Gregory II, who gave him his new name of Boniface, to evangelize in Germany and reorganize the church there. For five years he laboured in Hesse, Thuringia and Frisia, and on November 30, 722, he was elevated to bishop of the German territories he would bring into the fold of the Roman Church.
In 723, Boniface felled the holy oak tree dedicated to Thor near the present-day town of Fritzlar in northern Hesse. He built a chapel from its wood at the site wher ...
See also:Saint Boniface, Saint Boniface - Early Life, Saint Boniface - First Mission to Frisia, Saint Boniface - Thor's Oak and the Conversion of the Northern German Tribes, Saint Boniface - Boniface and the Carolingians, Saint Boniface - Last Mission to Frisia, Saint Boniface - Trivia Read more here: » Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Saint Boniface - Thor's Oak and the Conversion of the Northern German Tribes |
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia - Saint Walpurga Saint Walpurga, born in Wessex, ca. 710, died at Heidenheim, 25 February 779 was an English missionary in Germany.
Together with her brothers, Saint Willibald and Saint Winibald, she travelled to Württemberg to assist Saint Boniface. She became a nun and lived in the convent of Heidenheim near Eichstätt, which was founded by Winibald. Walpurga died on 25 February 779 and that day still carries her name in the Catholic calendar, but in the Swedish calendar, her feast day is 1 May, the date of Walpurgis Night.
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Fulda - History
Fulda - Early Middle Ages.
The Benedictine monastery of Fulda (in what is now Hessen, Germany), was founded in 744 by Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, as one of Boniface's outposts in the reorganization of the church in Germany, and a base from which missionaries accompanied Charlemagnes armies in their political and military campaign to destroy Heathen Saxony.
The initial grant for the abbey was signed by Carloman, the son of Charles Martel. The support of the Mayors of the Palace and later, the ...
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Lebuinus - Life Lebuinus was a monk in Wilfrid's monastery at Ripon. Inspired by the example of Saint Boniface, Saint Willibrord and other great English missionaries, he resolved to devote his life to the conversion of the Germans.
After his ordination he proceeded in 754 to Utrecht, and was welcomed by Saint Gregory, acting bishop of that place, who entrusted him with the mission of Overijssel on the borders of Westphalia, and gave him as a companion Marchelm (or Marcellinus) ...
See also:Lebuinus, Lebuinus - Life, Lebuinus - Death, Lebuinus - Veneration, Lebuinus - Literature Read more here: » Lebuinus: Encyclopedia II - Lebuinus - Life |
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Ludger - Early Life to Ordination Ludger's parents, Thiadgrim and Liafburg, were wealthy Christian Frisians of noble descent.
In 753 Ludger saw the great Apostle of Germany, Saint Boniface, which, together with the subsequent martyrdom of the saint, made a deep impression on him. At his own request he was sent to the Utrecht Cathedral School (Martinsstift), founded by Saint Gregory of Utrecht in 756 or 757, and made good progress.
In 767 Gregory, who did not wish to receive episcopal consecration himself, sent Alubert, who had come from England to assist ...
See also:Ludger, Ludger - Early Life to Ordination, Ludger - The Netherlands, Ludger - Westphalia and Saxony, Ludger - Later life, Ludger - Death and relics, Ludger - Veneration, Ludger - Literature Read more here: » Ludger: Encyclopedia II - Ludger - Early Life to Ordination |
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Aschaffenburg - History Aschaffenburg, called in the Middle Ages Ascapha or Ascaphaburg, was originally a Roman settlement. Roman legions had their station here, and on the ruins of their castrum the Frankish mayors of the palace built a castle. Saint Boniface erected a chapel to Saint Martin, and founded a Benedictine monastery. A stone bridge over the Main was built by Archbishop Willigis in 989. Adalbert increased the importance the town in various ways about 1122. In 1292 a synod was held here, and in 1474 an imperial diet, preliminary to that of Vienna, in which the concordat was decided which has therefore sometimes c ...
See also:Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg - History, Aschaffenburg - Sights, Aschaffenburg - Population, Aschaffenburg - External link Read more here: » Aschaffenburg: Encyclopedia II - Aschaffenburg - History |
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| | | | Saint Boniface: Encyclopedia II - Walpurgis Night - Origins The festival is named after Saint Walburga (known in Scandinavia as "Valborg"; alternative forms are "Walpurgis", "Wealdburg", or "Valderburger"), born in Wessex in 710 a niece of Saint Boniface and, according to legend, she was a daughter to the Saxon prince St. Richard. Together with her brothers she travelled to Württemberg, Germany where she became a nun and lived in the convent of Heidenheim, which was founded by her brother Wunibald. Walburga died on 25 February 779 and that day still carries her name in the Catholic calendar. However she was not made a saint until 1 May in the same year, and that da ...
See also:Walpurgis Night, Walpurgis Night - Origins, Walpurgis Night - Germany, Walpurgis Night - Sweden and Finland, Walpurgis Night - References in modern culture Read more here: » Walpurgis Night: Encyclopedia II - Walpurgis Night - Origins |
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