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Boniface, St

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Boniface, St (680-754)

English Benedictine monk, known as the ‘Apostle of Germany’; originally named Wynfrith. After a missionary journey to Frisia in 716, he was given the task of bringing Christianity to Germany in 718 by Pope Gregory II, and was appointed archbishop of Mainz in 746. He returned to Frisia in 754 and was martyred near Dockum. His feast day is 5 June.


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