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==Life==
He was of good family, and it was somewhat against his father's wishes that he devoted himself at an early age to the [[monastic]] life. He received his theological training in the [[Rule of St. Benedict|Benedictine ]] monasteries of Adescancastre, near Exeter and Nursling between Winchester and Southampton, under the [[abbot]] Winbert, taught in the [[abbey]] school and at the age of thirty became a [[priest]]. He wrote the first Latin grammar produced in England.
In 716 he set out on a missionary expedition to Frisia, intending to [[conversion|convert]] the Frisians by preaching to them in their own language, his own Anglo-Saxon language being similar to Frisian, but his efforts were frustrated by the war then being carried on between Charles Martel and Radbod, king of the Frisians. He returned to Nursling.
*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/b/inp157.htm Icon and Story of St. Boniface]
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