Our saint today is Saint Boniface who was born sometime between the years 673 and 680 in Devonshire, England. He was educated at the Benedictine monastery in Exeter, England and became a Benedictine monk there. He was a missionary to Germany in the year 719 and was assisted by several other saints: Albinus, Abel, and Agatha. They built churches were they had destroyed pagan temples. He was bishop then archbishop of Mainz and he reformed the churches in his See and also built religious houses in Germany. He ordained Saint Sola. He also restored and founded the Dioceses of Bavaria, Thuringia, and Franconia. He then evangelized in Holland, but when pagans attacked him and his companions, Saint Adaler and Saint Eoban, they were martyred on June 5, 754. His relics are in a monastery in Fulda, Germany.
"In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course. Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial."
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