Editing Saint Boniface (section)

==Veneration==
===Fulda===
[[File:St. Boniface Statue at the Mainz Cathedral.jpg|thumb|Statue of St. Boniface by Johann Kaspar Hiernle (1750) at Mainz Cathedral]]

Veneration of Boniface in Fulda began immediately after his death; his grave was equipped with a decorative tomb around ten years after his burial, and the grave and relics became the center of the abbey. Fulda monks prayed for newly elected abbots at the grave site before greeting them, and every Monday the saint was remembered in prayer, the monks prostrating themselves and reciting [[Psalm 51|Psalm 50]]. After the abbey church was rebuilt to become the [[Ratgar Basilica]] (dedicated 791), Boniface's remains were [[Translation (relic)|translated]] to a new grave: since the church had been enlarged, his grave, originally in the west, was now in the middle; his relics were moved to a new [[apse]] in 819. From then on Boniface, as [[Jus patronatus|patron]] of the abbey, was regarded as both spiritual intercessor for the monks and legal owner of the abbey and its possessions, and all donations to the abbey were done in his name. He was honored on the date of his martyrdom, 5 June (with a mass written by [[Alcuin]]), and (around the year 1000) with a mass dedicated to his appointment as bishop, on 1 December.<ref>Kehl, "Entstehung und Verbreitung" 128-32.</ref>

===Dokkum===
Willibald's {{lang|la|vita}} describes how a visitor on horseback came to the site of the martyrdom, and a hoof of his horse got stuck in the mire. When it was pulled loose, a well sprang up. By the time of the {{lang|la|Vita altera Bonifatii}} (9th century), there was a church on the site, and the well had become a "fountain of sweet water" used to sanctify people. The {{lang|la|Vita Liudgeri}}, a hagiographical account of the work of [[Ludger]], describes how Ludger himself had built the church, sharing duties with two other priests. According to James Palmer, the well was of great importance since the saint's body was hundreds of miles away; the physicality of the well allowed for an ongoing connection with the saint. In addition, Boniface signified Dokkum's and Frisia's "connect[ion] to the rest of (Frankish) Christendom".<ref>Palmer 162.</ref>