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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Boniface
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Christopher Dawson on \nST BONIFACE \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 the \nAnglo-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 a \nstatesman 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 \nGermany to reorganize the Bavarian Church and to establish the new dioceses \nwhich had so 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. \nBut in addition to this\, Boniface was the reformer of the whole Frankish \nchurch. The decadent Merovingian dynasty had already given up the substance \nof its power to the mayors of the palace\, but in spite of their military prowess\, \nwhich saved France from conquest by the Arabs in 735\, they had done nothing \nfor culture and had only furthered the degradation of the Frankish Church. \nCharles Martel had used the abbeys and bishoprics to reward his lay partisans\, \nand had carried out a wholesale secularization of Church property. \nAs Boniface wrote to the Pope\, “Religion is trodden under foot. Benefices \nare given to greedy laymen or unchaste and publican clerics. All their crimes do \nnot prevent their attaining the priesthood; at last rising in rank as they increase \nin sin they become bishops\, and those of them who can boast that they are not \nadulterers or fornicators\, are drunkards\, given up to the chase\, and soldiers who \ndo not shrink from shedding Christian blood.” \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.
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