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Boniface returned to the continent the next year and went straight to Rome, where Pope Gregory II renamed him "Boniface", after the (legendary) fourth-century martyr Boniface of Tarsus, and appointed him missionary bishop for Germania—he became a bishop without a diocese for an area that lacked any church organization. He would never return ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates both of them on 19 December as the "Martyr Boniface at Tarsus in Cilicia and Righteous Aglaida of Rome". [1] He is invoked against drunkenness. [2] In the 12th century, the name of Boniface (without Aglaida) was included on 14 May in the General Roman Calendar with the lowest rank of feast
3 June: Saints Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs – memorial; 5 June: Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr – memorial; 6 June: Saint Norbert, Bishop – optional memorial; 9 June: Saint Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church – optional memorial; 11 June: Saint Barnabas, Apostle – memorial
9 March: Saint Bruno Boniface of Querfurt, bishop and martyr – Optional Memorial; 23 April: Saint Adalbert, bishop and martyr – Optional Memorial; 29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor of the Church – Feast; 16 May: Saint Andrew Bobola, priest and martyr – Optional Memorial; 2 July: Our Lady, Queen of Families ...
Pope Boniface IV, OSB [2] (Latin: Bonifatius IV; 550 – 8 May 615 [a]) was the bishop of Rome from 608 to his death. Boniface had served as a deacon under Pope Gregory I, and like his mentor, he ran the Lateran Palace as a monastery. As pope, he encouraged monasticism. With imperial permission, he converted the Pantheon into a church.
7 January: Saint Juan de Ribera, bishop – Memorial; 22 January: Saint Vincenzo Pallotti, priest – Memorial; 28 January: Saint Agnes Romana, virgin and martyr, Principal Patroness of the Order – Feast; 4 February: Blessed Elisabetta Canori Mora – Memorial; 14 February: Saint Juan Bautista de la Concepción, priest – Feast
Denise (Dionysia, Dionisia), Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus are venerated as martyrs by the Catholic Church. They were killed in the late 5th century during the persecution of Trinitarian Christians in Proconsular Africa by the Arian Vandals , according to Victor of Vita . [ 1 ]
The Fulda martyrology mentions him as a bishop, [2] as does the Vita tertia Bonifatii. [3] According to the Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldo, on the morning of 5 June 754, Boniface and 50 others, presumably including Eoban (none of the companions are mentioned by name in the Vita), were killed at Dokkum (The Netherlands) by pagan Frisians. [4]