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Boniface of Brussels

Field	Value
type	Bishop
honorific_prefix	Saint
name	Boniface
title	Bishop of Lausanne
image	Boniface de Bruxelles.JPG
caption	Stained-glass window in St. Peter's Church, Brussels
church	Catholic Church
diocese	Lausanne
see	Lausanne
appointed	1231
enthroned	March 1231
term_end	1239
predecessor	Guillaume di Cenblens
successor	Jean di Cossonay
consecration	c. 1231
rank	Bishop
birth_name	Boniface
birth_date	1183
birth_place	Brussels, Belgium
death_date	19 February 1265
death_place	La Cambre
feast_day	19 February
venerated	Catholic Church
beatified_date	1603
beatified_by	Pope Clement VIII
canonized_date	1702
canonized_place	Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States
canonized_by	Pope Clement XI
attributes	Episcopal attire

Boniface of Brussels (1183 – 19 February 1260) was a Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Lausanne from circa 1231 until 1239 when he resigned after agents of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II assaulted him. His relics are housed at the Kapellekerk, and at La Cambre where he died.

Biography

Boniface was born in what is today Belgium in 1183. A Cistercian monk of the Abbey of Cambre, near Brussels, he left in 1200 left to study at University of Paris.

Distinguished for his learning, he taught dogma and became a popular lecturer. He was ordained to the priesthood while in France and from 1222 until 1229 taught at the college. But there soon became a bitter dispute between the teachers and students which prompted him to leave and find work elsewhere. He then taught, until 1231, in Cologne at the cathedral school.

Tomb inside the [[Chapel Church]], Brussels

He became the Bishop of Lausanne in 1231 and was enthroned in his new see in March 1231 after receiving his episcopal consecration. He was enthusiastic about this appointment but was faced with corrupt priests which he condemned in a pulpit address while also singling out King Frederick II. He later served as an auxiliary bishop in Brabant.

In 1245 he attended the First Council of Lyon which Pope Innocent IV had convoked, and later retired to La Cambre Abbey. Boniface died in 1265.

References

Sources

Bollandus, Joannes; Henschenius, Godefridus (edd). Acta sanctorum ... Februarius. . Volume 3 Antwerp: apud Jacobum Meursium, 1658. pp. 149–159.
Rattinger, D. hl. Bonifaz, Universitätsprofessor zu Paris, Domscholaster zu Köln, Bischof von Lausanne, Weihbischof in Brabant und den Niederlanden," in: Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, , vol. 50 (Fribourg, 1896), 10-23, 139-157.
Schmitt, Martin (1858). Mémoires historiques sur le Diocèse de Lausanne, , Fribourg: Impr. J.-L. Piller 1858), Volume 2, pp. 1–15.

References

"St. Boniface of Lausanne". Catholic Online.
[http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-boniface-of-lausanne/ Monks of Ramsgate. "Boniface of Laus". ''Book of Saints'', 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 5 September 2012]{{PD-notice
"St. Boniface of Lausanne (Feast: February 19)". America Needs Fatima.
(31 January 2014). "Saint Boniface of Lausanne".
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09040a.htm Reinhold, Gregor. "Lausanne and Geneva." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 26 September 2021{{PD-notice

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