Saint Boniface
Boniface, OSB (born Wynfreth; 675 –5 June 754) was an English Benedictines, Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century. He organised significant foundations of ...
(c. 675? – 754), known as the "Apostle to the Germans", was an important figure in early Christianity.
Saint Boniface, Saint-Boniface or St. Boniface may also refer to:
Other saints
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Boniface of Brussels
Boniface of Brussels (1183 – 19 February 1260) was a Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Lausanne from circa 1231 until 1239 when he resigned after agents of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II assaulted him. His relics are housed at the ...
(1183–1260)
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Boniface of Tarsus
Saint Boniface of Tarsus (Greek: Βονιφάτιος) was, according to legend, executed for being a Christian in the year 307 at Tarsus, where he had gone from Rome in order to bring back to his mistress Aglaida (also written Aglaia) relics of ...
, martyred in 307, according to legend
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Boniface, 5th century African martyr (died 484)
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Bruno of Querfurt
Bruno of Querfurt, O.S.B. Cam., (; 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009), also known as Brun, was a Christian missionary bishop, Camaldolese monk and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread C ...
(970–1009), also known as Boniface, sainted missionary bishop and martyr, the "Apostle to the Prussians"
Places
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Saint Boniface, Winnipeg
St. Boniface (or Saint Boniface) is a Ward (electoral subdivision), city ward and neighbourhood in Winnipeg. Along with being the centre of the Franco-Manitoban community, it ranks as the largest Francophone Canadian, francophone community in Wes ...
, Manitoba, Canada, an historically francophone neighbourhood and former city
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Saint Boniface—Saint Vital
In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Anglican, Oriental Ortho ...
, a federal electoral district in Winnipeg containing the area of St. Boniface, formerly called simply "St. Boniface" (1924–1996) and "Saint Boniface" (1996–2013)
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St. Boniface (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district containing the northern section of the area of St. Boniface
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Boniface
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface () is a Latin archdiocese in part of the civil Province of Manitoba in Canada. Despite having no suffragan dioceses, the archdiocese is nominally metropolitan and is an ecclesiastical province by it ...
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Saint-Boniface, Quebec
Saint-Boniface () is a municipality (Quebec), municipality in the Mauricie Quebec region, region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada.
On April 5, 2003, the village municipality of Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan ...
, Canada, a town
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St Boniface Down
St Boniface Down is a chalk down near Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight, England. Its summit, , is the highest point on the island, with views on a clear day stretching over 70 miles from Beachy Head to the east, Walbury Hill to the north, the I ...
, a chalk down on the Isle of Wight in the British Isles
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Saint Boniface, Pennsylvania
Saint Boniface is an unincorporated community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 36, east of Hastings. Saint Boniface has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a ...
, United States, an unincorporated community
Churches and cathedrals
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St Boniface Cathedral, Bunbury
St Boniface Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in , a coastal city in the south west region of Western Australia. It was consecrated in 1962.
Location
The cathedral is the focal point of a precinct of ecclesiastical buildings on Brent Tor, a ...
, Western Australia, Australia
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Saint Boniface Cathedral
St. Boniface Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic cathedral in St. Boniface, Winnipeg, St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is an important building in Winnipeg, and is the principal church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Boniface, ...
, St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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St. Boniface Church (disambiguation)
Schools
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Université de Saint-Boniface
The Université de Saint-Boniface (USB) is a French-language public university located in the St. Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. An affiliated institution of the University of Manitoba, the university offers general and sp ...
, St. Boniface, Winnipeg, a French-language post-secondary institution
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St Boniface College
St Boniface College is a private secondary school in the Kavango East Region of Namibia, situated east of the regional capital, Rundu. It is a Roman Catholic Church boarding school.
St Boniface was founded in 1995 and named in honour of Bonifat ...
, a secondary school in the Kavango Region of Namibia
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St Boniface's College
St Boniface's Catholic College is a secondary school for boys, under the direction and trustees of the Roman Catholic Community in the Plymouth area in the South West of England. Founded in 1856 as an independent boarding and day school for "you ...
, a secondary school in Plymouth, Devon, UK
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St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster
St Boniface College, Warminster, formerly St Boniface Missionary College, was an Anglican educational institution in the Wiltshire town of Warminster, England during the last third of the 19th century and the first two-thirds of the 20th.
It was ...
, Wiltshire, UK, a former Anglican educational institution
Other uses
* , a Canadian Second World War minesweeper
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Saint Boniface Hospital
Saint Boniface Hospital (; also called St. B; previously called the Saint-Boniface General Hospital) is Manitoba's second-largest hospital, located in the St. Boniface, Winnipeg, St. Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg. Founded by the Sisters of ...
, Manitoba, Canada
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St. Boniface College, a fictional Oxbridge college in ''Pendennis'' by William Thackeray
See also
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St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, United States, a city
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