Saint Boniface is the Apostle of Germany. The chief sources from
which our knowledge of Saint Boniface is drawn are, first, the
writings of Boniface himself, particuJarly his Letters, with the
letters addressed to him which have been preserved with his own;
secondly, the Life by Willibald. The Life of Gregory, the saint's
beloved disciple, by Liudger, also presents a number of valuable
notices; and the Life of Abbot Sturmi of Fulda; by Eigil, gives the
best and fullest account of the beginnings of the great abbey of
Fulda, the special delight of the declining years of Boniface, and
the spot which he chose as the final resting place for his body.
Other contemporary material includes a few passages in the
chroniclers, and in the Lives of Willibald, bishop of EichsUitt,
and Wynnebald, abbot of Heidenheim, brothers, and relatives of
Boniface, by the Nun of Heidenheim. The Life of Boniface by
Willibald, the translation of which we give, was written within a
few years of the saint's death, almost certainly not later than 768
at the request of Boniface's successor, LuI, and of Bishop Megingoz
of Wurzburg. Willibald, a priest of AngloSaxon origin, is an author
worthy of all respect as regards industry and veracity. The chief
defects of his work are two: a style inflated and obscure,
supported by no sufficient foundation of grammatical knowledge; and
the comparative scantiness of the information which he supplies
concerning much of the later life of Boniface.3 Fortunately the
omissions can be supplied in part from the other sources.
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