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Boniface

c. 675 – 754 · b. Wessex · Bishop of Mainz
bishopmonkmartyr

Anglo-Saxon missionary and Archbishop of Mainz. Evangelized Frisia and Germany; martyred at Dokkum. Reorganized the Frankish church under papal authority. Extensive correspondence survives.

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Sources for biography

  • Willibald, Vita Bonifatii primary
  • Boniface, Epistolae primary

documented connections(2)

  • knew of Aldhelm of Sherborne
    Boniface, formed in the West Saxon school, knew and used Aldhelm's writings and praised him.
    Boniface, Epistolae 33
  • cited Pope Gregory I (the Great)
    Boniface modelled his missionary methods on Gregory's instructions to Augustine of Canterbury and corresponded with Gregory's papal successors.
    Boniface, Epistolae · Willibald, Vita Bonifatii

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