BONIFACE, a saint designated as the Apostle of Germany, was an Englishman, by name Winifrid, and was born in Devonshire, A.D. 670. He went to preach the gospel among the barbarous nations of Germany; and although created archbishop of Mayence, he soon after resigned his office, in order to preach in East Friesland, where during a tumult he was murdered by the pagans, June 5. 755. With him also perished Eban a bishop, three priests, three deacons, four monks, and forty-eight laics. The Bollandists collected the Acta Bonifaciana, containing an account of the miracles of the saint; and a collection of his Letters, amounting to 152, was published by Serrarius in 1605, 4to. In the Spicilegium of D'Achery may be found the canons which he promulgated for regulating the conduct of his clergy; and one of his sermons is preserved in the Thesaurus Anecdotorum Novissimus, tom. iii. part 2, published by D. Bernard Pez, at Augsburg, 1729.