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ST. BONIFACE

Early desire for serving God

Saint Boniface, the apostle of Germany, was an Anglo Saxon, born in Devonshire, England, in 680, and received the name Winfrid at his Baptism. At only five years old, some holy Benedictine Monks preaching in that country came to his father’s home. Winfrid was deeply impressed and longed to be a religious, but his father exerted his authority to change the boy’s mind until the Winfrid became seriously ill. His father took the illness as the hand of God chastising him for opposing his son’s vocation, so he left Winfrid free to pursue his vocation.

Becoming Boniface

At thirteen years of age he was sent to Exminster to be educated, and before he left he received the religious Habit of the Benedictines, taking the name of Boniface. He was ordained to the priesthood when thirty years old, and was so highly thought of by his superiors, that he was entrusted with an important commission to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Night and day, the holy servant of God bewailed the misfortune of those people living in idolatry. In 716, he went into Friesland to preach the Gospel, though his mission failed. Upon his return to England, he was chosen Abbot of the monastery.

Preaching

In 718, he went to Rome to ask the Pope’s blessing on his proposed new mission, and received his authority to preach to the German tribes. He began with Bavaria and Thuringia, and his life was in constant danger. The work was slow, but his courage never failed. The next visited Friesland, Hesse and Franconia, everywhere striving to enlighten the infidels. In 723, Pope Gregory II consecrated Boniface to Bishop, with full jurisdiction over the German tribes. He continued his spiritual conquests, and founded many churches and monasteries throughout the country. Obtaining new laborers from England, he stationed them in Hesse and Thuringia.

Martyrdom

In 732, the new Pope, Gregory III, constituted St. Boniface Archbishop and Primate of all Germany; in 738, Papal Legate, and in 747, Archbishop of Mainz. Several years before his death he founded the Abbey of Fulda (where his body now rests), as the center of all German missionary work. Although advanced in years, St. Boniface appointed a successor to his monastery and set out to convert a pagan tribe. One day, while waiting to administer Confirmation to some newly-baptized Christians, a band of enraged infidels rushed into the tent. His attendants desired to resist them, but St. Boniface would not permit it, declaring that the day he had long awaited was come, which would bring him to the eternal joys of the Lord. Then he encouraged the rest to meet with cheerfulness and constancy a death which would be to them the gate of everlasting life. Saint Boniface, at the age of seventy-five, was martyred on June 5, 755, at Dokkum, with fifty-two of his companions. Innumerable miracles have been wrought by God through the intercession of St. Boniface.

St. Boniface Rosary
UPC: 617759555486
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