General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . d in Thuringia, Hessia, andBavaria, and erected a number of chriitiauchurches. Being unequal to the managementof all these, he was advanced by Gregory the dignity of archbishop in 738 -, and byvirtue of the authority committed to him, hefounded several bi^hoprics, and the great mo-nastery of Fulda. Finally, he was by pope Za-chary created in 746 archbishop of Mentz, andprimate of Germany and Belgium. In 752 her
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . d in Thuringia, Hessia, andBavaria, and erected a number of chriitiauchurches. Being unequal to the managementof all these, he was advanced by Gregory the dignity of archbishop in 738 -, and byvirtue of the authority committed to him, hefounded several bi^hoprics, and the great mo-nastery of Fulda. Finally, he was by pope Za-chary created in 746 archbishop of Mentz, andprimate of Germany and Belgium. In 752 heresigned his see to his disciple LuUus, and re-tired to Utrecht, in order to pursue the con-version of the Friselanders. In this country,holding a confirmation, he was massacred bythe pagans in 754, or 755, along with fifty ec-clesiastics, his companions. He was interredin the abbey of Fulda, and has been canonizedby the Roman church. Boniface was undoubt-edly a zealous and active propagator of thechristian religion, though by no means in itsoriginal purity. Servilely devoted to the see ofRome, it was his great object to spread herpower aud supremacy; nor did he reject the.
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