#saint boniface

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Saint Boniface

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Feast Day: June 5

Patronage: Brewers, Fulda, Germany, World Youth Day

Saint Boniface was an English Benedictine monk known as the “Apostle of Germany” for evangelizing and reforming the Germanic church. He was a respected scholar, teacher, and priest, (then bishop) that was called to be a missionary. To convert the superstitious German pagans he cut down the giant oak tree dedicated to the god Thor, as a show of power of the true God, Christ. Boniface believed in Christian orthodoxy and fidelity to the Pope. He died, with 53 companions, a martyr.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[orthodoxadventure]

Men who wallow in luxury are said in Holy Scripture to pass sleepless nights through anxiety, spinning their fragile webs that catch only dust or a breath of wind, for as the psalmist says: 'They gather together treasure and know not for whom they gather it.' And at the moment when death, the minion of baneful Pluto, barks at the door, foaming at the mouth and gnashing his teach, they faint with fear; then, deprived of heavenly consolation, they lose in an instant both their precious souls and the deceitful gains for which they have slaved like misers night and day.

Saint Boniface, Enlightener of Germany The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany

[nanastrawberrygirl]

Brussels - Saint Boniface around sunset (unusually sunny for February)

[illustratus]

Saint Boniface Felling Donar's Oak by Johann Michael Wittmer

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Donar's oak goes brrrrrr

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St. Boniface, killed clutching his breviary which his attackers pierced as they martyred him.

[juniuscallidus]

“Let this be called the tree of the Christ-Child; gather about it, not in the wild wood, but in your own homes; there it will shelter no deeds of blood, but loving gifts and rites of kindness.”- Saint Boniface

[traumacatholic]

“Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, "let us die for the holy laws of our fathers," so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them.” St. Boniface