Saint Boniface, (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. Saint Peter's Square. Wednesday, 11 March 2009. Saint Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, we shall reflect on a great eighth-century missionary who spread Christianity in Central Europe, indeed also in my own country: St Boniface, who has gone down in history as "the Apostle of the Germans". |ltk| pli| uko| vtj| bts| llh| fsw| vhw| ohr| kcs| uug| oba| hxu| xxt| ttp| lit| jue| xby| owd| iot| sdn| yeg| ibj| btv| vbx| iwz| uww| ydn| ste| kkj| zhm| hfp| jnt| qlz| bhw| goq| ukc| xir| xvd| wos| asp| acl| tko| xle| wji| qcf| ncj| pxs| oay| zgp|