Remembering St. Boniface of Mainz

PASTOR’S CORNER, Rev. Jason Toombs, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Liberal
The Church celebrates the life and martyrdom of Saint Boniface of Mainz, Missionary to the Germans on June 5 as that was the date that he was martyred, in the year 754, for his faith in Jesus Christ.
Winfrid, his English name, later named Boniface after the fourth century martyr Boniface of Tarsus, was born in 675 into a prosperous family in England, and, against his father’s wishes, he devoted himself to the Benedictine monastery. His father had hoped that he would continue to follow in his footsteps, but the life of the church called him from an early age as he desired to walk the lonely way of the cross.