Boniface de Mayence
vers 675-754 8th century Feast day: June 5
Asking others to pray for you, and not keeping silent when one should speak.
Who was Boniface de Mayence?
A monk of Wessex, he left an abbey where all was well to set out for Frisia and Germania, where he would spend nearly forty years. He founded monasteries, brought English nuns to teach in them, and wrote constantly to his friends at home asking for books and for prayers. He was killed with his companions near Dokkum, at nearly eighty, with a book in his hands.
In their own words
Let us stand fast in battle in the day of the Lord because the days of tribulation and hardship have come upon us.
Let us not be dumb dogs nor silent watchmen, nor hirelings who flee before the wolf, but zealous shepherds, watching over the flock of Christ.
The Church, which like a great ship sails over the sea of the world, and is buffeted by the many waves of temptation in this life, must not be abandoned, but steered.