St. Boniface (c. 675-754) | WEST

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Letters

St. Boniface, Letter 8 (16): The Oath of Bishop Boniface (November 30, 722)¹

• The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist

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I, Boniface, by the grace of God bishop, promise to you, O blessed Peter, chief of the Apostles, and to your vicar, the blessed Pope Gregory [II] and to his successors, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the indivisible Trinity, and of this, thy most sacred body [the Eucharist], that I will show entire faith and sincerity toward the holy Catholic doctrine and will persist in the unity of the same, so God help me–that faith in which, beyond a doubt, the whole salvation of Christians consist…

This text of my oath, I, Boniface, a humble bishop, have written with my own hand and laid above they most sacred body [the Eucharist]. I have taken this oath as is prescribed, in the presence of God, my witness and my judge, and I pledge myself to observe it.

Footnotes

1. St. Boniface, Ephraim Emerton, trans., The Letters of Saint Boniface (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 19. ↩︎