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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Boniface
DESCRIPTION:ST BONIFACE \nThe Apostle of Germany4 \n◊◊◊ \nIn art and religion\, in scholarship and literature\, the Anglo-Saxons of the \neighth century were the leaders of their age. At the time when continental \ncivilization was at its lowest ebb\, the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons marked \nthe turn of the tide. The Saxon pilgrims flocked to Rome as the center of the \nChristian world and the Papacy found its most devoted allies and servants in \nthe Anglo-Saxon monks and missionaries. The foundations of the new age were \nlaid by the greatest of them all\, St Boniface of Crediton\, “the apostle of \nGermany”\, a man who had a deeper influence on the history of Europe than any \nEnglishman who has ever lived. \nUnlike his Celtic predecessors\, he was not an individual missionary\, but \na statesman and organizer\, who was\, above all\, servant of the Roman order. To \nhim is due the foundation of the medieval German Church and the final \nconversion of Hesse and Thuringia\, the heart of the German land. With the help \nof his Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns he destroyed the last strongholds of \nGermanic heathenism and planted abbeys and bishoprics on the site of the old \nFolkburgs and heathen sanctuaries\, such as Buraburg\, Amoneburg\, and Fulda. \nOn his return from Rome in 739 he used his authority as Papal Vicar in Germany \nto reorganize the Bavarian Church and to establish the new dioceses which had \nso great an importance in German history. \nFor Germany beyond the Rhine was still a land without cities\, and the \nfoundation of the new bishoprics meant the creation of new centers of cultural \nlife. It was through the work of St Boniface that Germany first became a living \nmember of the European society. But in addition to this\, Boniface was the \nreformer of the whole Frankish church. The decadent Merovingian dynasty \nhad already given up the substance of its power to the mayors of the palace\, but \nin spite of their military prowess\, which saved France from conquest by the \nArabs in 735\, they had done nothing for culture and had only furthered the \ndegradation of the Frankish Church. Charles Martel had used the abbeys and \nbishoprics to reward his lay partisans\, and had carried out a wholesale \nsecularization of Church property. As Boniface wrote to the Pope\, “Religion is \ntrodden under foot. Benefices are given to greedy laymen or unchaste and \npublican clerics. All their crimes do not prevent their attaining the priesthood; \nat last rising in rank as they increase in sin they become bishops\, and those of \nthem who can boast that they are not adulterers or fornicators\, are drunkards\, \ngiven up to the chase\, and soldiers who do not shrink from shedding Christian \nblood.” \nNevertheless\, the successors of Charles Martel\, Pepin and Carloman\, \nwere favorable to Boniface’s reforms. Armed with his special powers as Legate \nof the Holy See and personal representative of the Pope\, he undertook the \ndesecularization of the Frankish Church. \n  \n4 Dawson\, Christopher. “The Making of Europe”\, New York\, 1956\, pp 185-186.9 \n  \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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