Boniface, St., the Apostle of Germany, born in Devonshire, his real name Winfried; consecrated Pepin le Bref; was made Primate of Germany; was, with 53 companions, massacred by the barbarians of Friesland, whom he sought to convert (680‒755).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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