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Boniface
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BONIFACE, St, the Apostle of Germany, whose real name was Winfrid, was born at Crediton in Devonshire, in 680. 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 convents of Exeter and Nutcell, and at the age of thirty became a priest. In 715 he set out on a missionary expedition to Friesland, but his efforts were frustrated by the war then being carried on between Charles Martel and Radbod, king of the Frisians. Despite the wishes of his brethren, who desired to make him their abbot, he again set out in 718, visited Rome, and was commissioned by Gregory II. to preach to the pagans of Germany. For five years he laboured in Thuringia, Hessia, and Friesland, and then returned to Rome to report his success. He again set out for Germany, and, armed with full powers from the Pope, baptized thousands of the heathen, and brought back to the Church of Rome many Christians who had in a measure separated themselves from the fold. After another visit to Rome in 738 he proceeded to Bavaria, and founded there the bishoprics of Salzburg, Regensburg (Ratisbon), Freisingen, and Passau. He then resumed his labours in Germany, where he erected the. districts of Würzburg, Erfurt, and Burburg into bishoprics. He also organized provincial synods in the Frankish Church, and obtained great influence over the king, Pepin, whom he crowned at Soissons. Boniface had been created a bishop by Gregory IL, and after the deposition of the bishop of Mainz in 745, that bishopric was converted into a metropolis and conferred upon him, much against his own inclinations. He had never relinquished his hope of converting the Frisians, and iu 755 he set out with a small retinue for ...Friesland. He baptized a great number, and summoned a general meeting for confirmation at a place not far from Dokkum, between Franeker and Groningen. Instead of his converts, however, there appeared a mob of armed pagans, who fell upon the aged archbishop and slew him. His remains were finally deposited in the famous abbey of Fulda, founded by himself.
The epistles of Boniface have been published by Serrarius, 1605, and by Wiirdtwein, 1790; his works by Giles, 2 vols., 1842. On ilia life and labours see Löffler, Bonifacius, 1812; Seiter, Bonifacùis, 1845; Bettberg, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, i.; Nean der, Church History, Bohn’s transi., vol. v.
BONIFACE, the name of nine popes.
Boniface I., bishop of Rome from 418 to 422, was a contemporary of St Augustine, who dedicated to him some of his works.
Boniface II., 530-532, was by birth a Goth, and owed his election to the influence of the Gothic king. He had for some time an anti-pope, Dioscurus.
Boniface III., 15th February to 12th November 606, obtained from Phocas recognition of the headship of the Church at Rome.
Boniface IV., 608-615, received from Phocas the Pantheon at Rome, which was converted into a Christian church.
Boniface V., 619-625, did much for the Christianizing of England.
Boniface VI. was elected in April 897, and died fifteen days afterwards.
Boniface VII., who attained the Papal chair in 974, is sometimes styled an anti-pope. He is supposed to have put his predecessor, Benedict VI., to death. A popular tumult compelled him to flee to Constantinople; but he carried with him vast treasure, and in 984 he returned and removed, by murder, John XIV., who had been elected in his room. He died in 985 or 986.
Boniface VIII., Benedict Cajetan, a man of great ability, was elected in 1294, Celestine V. having been persuaded to resign. He meddled incessantly in foreign affairs, and put forward the strongest claims to temporal as well as spiritual supremacy. His bitterest quarrels were with the emperor, with the powerful family of the Colonnas, and with Philip the Fair of France, whom he excommunicated in 1303. He was about to lay all France under an interdict when he was seized at Agnani by a party of horsemen under Nogaret, an agent of Philip, and Sciarra Colonna. After three days’ captivity he was rescued by the town’s people, but the agitation he had undergone caused his death soon after, on the 11th October 1303. In 1300 Boniface instituted the jubilees, which afterwards became such a source of profit and of scandal to the church.
Boniface IX. was elected in 1390 and died in 1404. During his time the so-called Clement V. continued to hold state as pope in Aviguon.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 4, p. 33
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