Saint Boniface of Tarsus

Memorial

• 14 May

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Steward to Saint Alexius. Travelled from Rome, Italy to Tarsus, Cilicia (in modern Turkey) to recover the bodies of martyrs there. Marytred there himself.

Died

• beheaded c.307 in Tarsus, Cilicia (in modern Turkey)
• relics enshrined in the Church of Saints Alexis and Boniface on the Aventine in Rome, Italy

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Lives of the Saints, by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Roman Martyrology

MLA Citation

• “Saint Boniface of Tarsus“. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 May 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>