Their story
Adapted in modern English from Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints · Baring-Gould original below · little is known
Butler says Boniface came from Italy to northern Britain out of zeal for souls. He landed near the mouth of the Tees and built churches dedicated to St Peter there, at Tellein and at Restennet.
He preached through Angus, Marris, Buchan, Elgin, Murray and Ross, and as Bishop of Ross filled that country with oratories and churches. He died about 630 and was buried at Rosmark. The Aberdeen Breviary (the book of the Church's daily prayer) credits him with founding 150 churches and oratories and with many miracles after his death.
Early life
The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 123 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Alban Quiritine, or Kiritine, surnamed Boniface, is fabulously said to have been of Israelite race, and a descendant of Radia, sister of the apostles Peter and Andrew. All that is known of him is that he was bishop of Ross, in Scotland, and that he laboured to suppress the Keltic ritual and to establish Roman uniformity, doing in Scotland the work accomplished by S. Wilfrid in Northumbria. He preached to and converted large numbers of Picts and Scots, during sixty years of evangelical labours.
