Saint Boniface - Early Life

Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifacius)(German: Bonifatius), (c. 672 - June 5, 754), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid or Wynfrith at Crediton in Devon, England, was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. Saint Boniface - Early Life. Born at Crediton, Devon . He was of good family, and it was somewhat against his father's wishes that he devoted himself at an early age to the monastic life. He received his theological training in the Ben ...

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• 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

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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 ...

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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

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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

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