The statue of St. Boniface (St. Bonifatius) at the Mainz Cathedral
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The statue of St. Boniface (St. Bonifatius) at the Mainz Cathedral, 2004, photograph: Martin Bahmann; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonifazius.jpg, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.
Boniface, birth name Wynfreth (ca. 673–ca. 754), came from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex and was one of the best known Christian missionaries. The Benedictine functioned, among other things, from the middle of the 8th century as bishop of Mainz.
The statue of St. Boniface (St. Bonifatius) at the Mainz Cathedral, 2004, photograph: Martin Bahmann; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonifazius.jpg, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.