BONIFACE, SAINT, German Missionary

d. 1009, German missionary, known also by his lay name, Bruno of Querfurt. He evangelized the Balts and died a martyr. He is known as the Apostle of the Prussians. Feast: June 19.

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books on: Boniface Saint German Missionary  - 24 results

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The Letters of Saint Boniface
Book by Boniface, Ephraim Emerton; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: Boniface--Saint, Archbishop Of Mainz--Ca. 675-754--Correspondence
...complained about German bishops who were...of evidence that Boniface actually accom...At some point Boniface prevailed upon Charles...defeat in 738, Boniface followed up imme- diately with missionary work in the region...
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The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany: Being the Lives of Ss. Willibrord, Boniface, Sturm, Leoba, and Libuin, Together with the Hodoeporicon of St. Willibald and a Selection from the Correspondence of St. Boniface
Book by C. Talbot H.; Sheed and Ward, 1954
Subjects: Christian Biography, Germany--Church History, Missions--Germany
...from his bishop. Boniface, coming to himself...made a sign to the saint to withdraw. When...he discussed the saints project with him...beginning of May the saint begged and received...of relics of the saints, he retraced his...Bavarians and their German neighbours, unknown...addition to this, Boniface carried an open...
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The Papal Monarchy from St. Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII
Book by William Barry; T. Fisher Unwin, 1902
Subjects: Papacy
...comes young Alberic, Senator and perhaps Saint, a lay impropriator of the Papacy, under...his order, and when he called in the German King Otho, he was preparing his own act...Christianity through his wife and the illustrious missionary Cyril, who evangelised the Slavs. He...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Book by David Hugh Farmer; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Christian Saints--Biography--Dictionaries, Christian Saints--Great Britain--Biography--Dictionaries, Christian Saints--Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries
...by *Burchard and he is found with *Boniface in the calendar of Godescale c .782...his life. Some old hymns in Latin and German survive in his honour. Feast: 8 July...October. R. Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests ed. J. H. Pollen, 1924...grew to number 762 friars. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Kolbe,
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Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society : Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little
Book by Sharon Farmer, Barbara H. Rosenwein; Cornell University Press, 2000
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Civilization, Medieval, Europe--Church History--600-1500
...the eighth century, the missionary Saint Boniface relied on Eadburga, abbess...his missionary work on the German frontier. In one case, Boniface sent her the materials she...Girls, pp. 631-34. 8. Boniface, S. Bonifatii et Lulli...
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journal articles on: Boniface Saint German Missionary  - 13 results

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Between Islam and Catholicism: Bosnian Franciscan Missionaries in Turkish Hungary, 1584-1716
Journal article by Istvan Gyorgy Toth; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 89, 2003
Subjects: Catholicism, Faith, History, Islam, Missionaries
...manoeuvre in their missionary work.2 Franciscan...Kingdom to be a missionary territory and appointed...countries: English, German, Italian, and...famous inquisitor, Saint Jacob of Marche...to expand their missionary activity in the...thus the Bosnian missionaries found Croatian...In 1580-81, Boniface of Ragusa (Bonifacije...
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The Grasshopper Shrine at Cold Spring, Minnesota: Religion and Market Capitalism among German-american Catholics
Journal article by Stephen Gross; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 92, 2006
Subjects: Agriculture, American history, Capitalism, Catholicism, Farmers, German Americans, Religion, Religious buildings, Rural areas
...process. These North Germans were part of a...Pierz, a Slovenian missionary already in his...the impetus for German settlement. In...attracting Benedictine missionaries to the area, who...people, the old missionary included an explicit...invitation to good German Catholics to settle...the opinion that Germans prove to be the...places named after saints, encompasses a...
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A Current Bibliography of Canadian Religious History
Journal article; Historical Studies, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Bibliographies, Bibliography, Religious history
...Presses Univ. de Saint-Boniface...Universitaires de Saint-Boniface...de Saint-Boniface, 2000: 275-299. Missionary Oblates of Mary...a Methodist Missionary at Berens River...Presses Univ. de Saint-Boniface, 2000: 37...
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New Voices in the Tradition: Medieval Hagiography Revisited
Journal article by Marie Anne Mayeski; Theological Studies, Vol. 63, 2002
Subjects: Hagiography--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature, Medieval--Religious aspects, Theology, Catholic--Technique
...instrumental in the German mission, he...and crucial. Boniface seeks appropriate...the one hand, missionaries and bishops could...teaching," Boniface means more than...and woman, all missionaries must be equally...educated faith; Boniface clearly intends...take hold in his German mission. He...
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A Current Bibliography of Canadian Religious History/Bibliographie Recente D'histoire Religieuse Du Canada: 2005-2006
Journal article by Jean-Marie Leblanc, Guy Laperriere, Jocelyne Murray, Margaret Sanche; Historical Studies, Vol. 72, 2006
...the International Missionary Enterprise during...eds. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples...eds. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples...2004) : 89-105. Missionary Oblate Sisters Bruno...7. Religieux de Saint-Vincent de Paul...Speech : Methodist Missionary Narratives and William...eds. Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples...de 1942 a 1972. Saint-Bernard, Mere...
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magazine articles on: Boniface Saint German Missionary  - 3 results

 
 
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Historical Trends in Missions and Earth Care
Magazine article by Dana L. Robert; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 35, July 2011
Subjects: Christianity, Competition, Missionaries, Religion, Religious conversion, Religious missions, Religious orders
...Assisi the patron saint of ecology in...diversity of missionary attitudes toward...which individual missionaries have understood...reminds us that missionary relationships...sixth-century missionary Martin of Braga...Trent in 397, missionaries who had tried...missionary bishop Boniface was said to...Christianization of the German people. In...
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Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries
Magazine article by Barbara Mitchell; History Today, Vol. 45, October 1995
Subjects: England--Buildings, facilities, etc., Monasteries--Design and construction, Nuns--Biography
...analysis is that of the German scholar Dom S...Kildare - though missionary monks from Ireland...male Anglo-Saxon saints. Some of their...princess and female saint for whom, according...correspondence of Boniface (also called Wynfrith...Their sisters, saints Cyneburga and Cyneswith...ecciesiastically, but Boniface mentions in a letter...
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From Pagans to Presidents - the Christmas Tree Tradition
Magazine article by Earle F. Layser; World and I, Vol. 15, December 2000
Subjects: Christmas trees--History
...According to one, Saint Boniface, the English missionary monk who brought...mighty oak. Saint Boniface felled the oak...legend has it that Boniface used the fir trees...the traditional German carol "O Tannenbaum...the Middle Ages, Germans and Scandinavians...d. 598, that missionaries should not try...


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encyclopedia articles on: Boniface Saint German Missionary  - 3 results

 
 
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Boniface, Saint , German Missionary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BONIFACE, SAINT , German missionary d. 1009, German missionary, known also by his lay name, Bruno of Querfurt. He evangelized the Balts and died a martyr. He is known as the Apostle of the Prussians. Feast: June 19...
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Walburga, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALBURGA, SAINT wolbur g , d. c.779, English missionary in Germany; sister of St. Willibald...She went there to assist St. Boniface, settling at Heidenheim, near...Walpurgisnacht, the traditional German witches sabbath held in the Harz...
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Missions
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and St. Boniface are great names...The great missionary orders are...were the great missionaries of the Counter...Francis Xavier, Saint ), to America...Company sent missionaries to the Malaysians...Brainerd as a missionary to the Native...first Lutheran missionaries mainly German Pietists in...


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