St. Boniface is the patron saint of Germany. He was born of noble Anglo-Saxon parents in England. Baptized Wynfrid, a name which meant "Joy and Peace," and trained in sanctity and knowledge from the age of five by the Benedictines, he excelled in preaching and expounding the Sacred Scriptures. He was ordained priest at 30 and 9 years later granted his longstanding wish to go as a missionary to his Saxon kinsmen in Friesland. In 722, he was consecrated Bishop of Hessia and Thuringia, and his name was Latinized to Boniface, which means "doing good." It was in Hessia that he dauntlessly felled the huge oak tree consecrated to the heathen god of thunder, and when the much-feared dire consequences expected failed to materialize, the German tribes, one after the other, converted to Christianity.
A missionary center was established in Hessia to train native clergy, leading to increased conversions and the growth of monasteries and schools staffed by English monks and nuns. In 748, Boniface became Archbishop of Mainz and Primate of Germany. He spent some time each year personally training the monks at the abbey of Fulda. In his 75th year, he embarked on a final missionary journey to Friesland, where he was martyred along with 12 clerics and 40 converts on June 5, 755. Known as the "St Paul of Germany," Boniface unified individual missionary efforts and established a solid ecclesiastical organization, emphasizing clergy obedience to bishops and the establishment of Benedictine monasteries.
St. Boniface, grant us the courage to embrace the faith and boldly profess it in our words and deeds.
Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Pelayan Atasan Tertinggi / Most High Servant,
Yesus, Maria, Yusuf Pelayanan Kasih / Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)
My vocation is Blessed and Saints.
"I am the most humble of all the Saints in Heaven" Mary, Mother of God."
"I am the handmaid of the Lord, said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me."
Mother Mary is the most humble Saint in Heaven and she is also the Mother of God for us all
(Luke 1:38)
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