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Apostle of Germany Winfrid Wynfrith
In Saxony, Boniface encountered a tribe worshipping a Norse deity in the form of a huge oak tree. Boniface walked up to the tree, removed his shirt, took up an axe, and without a word he hacked down the six foot wide wooden god. Boniface stood on the trunk, and asked, "How stands your mighty god? My God is stronger than he." The crowd's reaction was mixed, but some conversions were begun.
One tradition about Saint Boniface says that he used the customs of the locals to help convert them. There was a game in which they threw sticks called kegels at smaller sticks called heides. Boniface bought religion to the game, having the heides represent demons, and knocking them down showing purity of spirit.
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New Catholic Dictionary Catholic Encyclopedia, by Francis Mershman Catholic Online, by Terry Matz Christian Biographies, by James Keifer Columbia Encyclopedia Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck Encyclopedia Britannica For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein Google Directory Life of Saint Boniface, by Willibald Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler Lives of the Saints, by John J Crawley Saint Boniface: Tamer of Tribes, by Joseph Dunney In Hac Tanta, by Pope Benedict XV Boniface Advises Nithard to Continue His Studies Pope Gregory III Entrusts Boniface with a Mission to the Heathens Saint Bugga Congratulates Boniface on His Success in Frisia The Oath Taken By Boniface Pope Gregory II Commends Bishop Boniface to the Christians of Germany Pope Gregory II Gregory Invests Boniface with Episcopal Authority Pope Gregory II Commends Boniface to the Leaders of Thuringia Pope Gregory II Commends Boniface to Charles Martel Charles Martel Takes Boniface Under His Protection Bishop Daniel of Winchester Advises Boniface on the Method of Converting The Heathen Pope Gregory Replies to a Report From Boniface Pope Gregory II Commends Boniface to the People of Thuringia Pope Gregory II Replies to Questions Put by Boniface Boniface Gives Advice to Saint Bugga about Her Pilgrimage to Rome Pope Gregory II Invests Boniface with the Pallium The English Nun Leoba Begs Boniface's Prayers For Her Parents Pope Gregory III Writes to Boniface about the Organization of the Church in Bavaria Boniface Writes to the English, Asking Prayers for the Conversion of the Saxons Boniface Asks Protection for His Mission In Thuringia From Grifo, Mayor of The Palace Boniface to Pope Zacharias On His Accession to the Papacy The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid and say to him: "O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations."
Let us trust in him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For he is all-powerful, and he tells us: "My yoke is easy, and my burden light."
Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, "let us die for the holy laws of our fathers," so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them.
from a letter by Saint Boniface