DIDJAGEDIT?
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Boniface was called the “Apostle of _________.”
Boniface was born in what country?
What was Boniface’s baptismal name as a child?
At first Boniface’s dad didn’t want him to join a monastery. What changed his
mind?
5. What job was Boniface first given as a monk (clue: he was REALLY good at it!)
6. Who commissioned Boniface to be a missionary?
7. When Boniface got permission to be a missionary, he went towards the
Netherlands where the people practiced what religion?
8. After being made a Bishop by Pope Gregory II, where was he sent to be a
missionary?
9. What happened to Thor’s sacred oak?
10. The Church of _________ was falling apart– so Boniface held a synod, helped to
reform the clergy and condemned heresy. Thus this Church was restored to its
former glory.
11. How was Boniface martyred?
12. What did his murderers find when they went to search for Boniface’s treasure?
Extra credit: What does the Latin name “Bonifatus” mean?
MY HOME
PARISH –
ST. BONIFACE
LAFAYETTE, IN
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Legend
• It seems to be generally recognized
that the people who lived in what is
now Germany were the first to
develop the tradition of the
Christmas tree.
• One tradition is that about 1000
years ago, in Germany, St Boniface
came across a group of pagans
worshipping under and oak tree. He
was so annoyed that he cut down the
tree. To his surprise he found that a
fir tree grew in its place and the fir
was thereafter associated with the
primacy of the Christian faith.
Writings
• The earliest "Life" of Boniface was written by a certain Willibald, an AngloSaxon priest who came to Mainz after Boniface's death, around 765.
Willibald's biography was widely dispersed. Other biographies followed.
• Boniface engaged in regular correspondence with fellow churchmen all over
Western Europe, including the three popes he worked with, and with some
of his kinsmen back in England. Many of these letters contain questions
about church reform and liturgical or doctrinal matters. In most cases, what
remains is one half of the conversation, either the question or the answer.
• The correspondence as a whole gives evidence of Boniface's widespread
connections.
• There are 150 letters in what is generally called the Bonifatian
correspondence, though not all them are by Boniface or addressed to him.
• Some fifteen preserved sermons are traditionally associated with Boniface,
but that they were actually his is not generally accepted.
• Early in his career, before he left for the continent, Boniface wrote an Ars
Grammatica, a grammatical treatise presumably for his students in Nursling.
He also wrote a treatise on verse, the Caesurae uersuum, and a collection of
riddles, the Enigmata.
VIDEO
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uri4JDqm
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• Please bring copy of Boniface reading
tomorrow! Thanks! No extra reading tonight.