This is the day I have long desired, and the hour of our deliverance is at hand.

Be strong in the Lord: hope in Him, and He will save your souls." The barbarians slew the holy man and the majority of his company.

A little while after, the Christians of the neighborhood came in arms and recovered the body of St.Boniface.

Near him was a book, which was stained with blood, and seemed to have dropped from his hands; it contained several works of the Fathers, and amongst others a writing of St.Ambrose "on the Blessing of Death." The death of the pious missionary was as powerful as his preaching in converting Friesland.

It was a mode of conquest worthy of the Christian faith, and one of which the history of Christianity had already proved the effectiveness.
St.Boniface did not confine himself to the evangelization of the pagans; he labored ardently in the Christian Gallo-Frankish Church, to reform the manners and ecclesiastical discipline, and to assure, whilst justifying, the moral influence of the clergy by example as well as precept.