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unusual facts about Boniface, Count of Bologna


Boniface of Tuscany

Boniface, Count of Bologna (died c. 1011), Count of Bologna and Margrave of Tuscany


1956–57 MJHL season

Ray Brunel (St. Boniface) set a league record for most points (105) in a single season.

Agbang Conventual Priory

With the support of the bishop of Sokodé, Frère Boniface left Dzogbegan in 1985 and began to recruit candidates for his ideal monastic community.

Andon, Alpes-Maritimes

The village was originally a lordship of Grasse, then of Boniface de Castellane before depending the Count of Provence in 1235 who passed it to Romée de Villeneuve.

Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin

There were in the vicariate in the early 20th century 15 Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, 8 Oblate Brothers of Mary Immaculate, 12 Grey Nuns (Montreal), 16 Oblate Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Mary Immaculate (St. Boniface), 4 more Grey Nuns (St. Hyacinth), 10 churches with 16 out-stations; 11,000 Indians, Dene, Cree and Eskimo, of whom 7000 were Catholics and 5000 non-Catholics or pagans (chiefly Eskimo).

Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat

There were numerous skirmishes and raids, including at Ricaldone and Caranzano, but by 1199 it was clear the war was lost, and Boniface entered into negotiations.

Boniface joined the Cremona League, while the two cities joined the League of Milan.

Boniface II, Marquess of Montferrat

However, Boniface's main sights were set not on the Piedmont but on nearby Alessandria: from 1227, when he strengthened an alliance with Asti, he continued until his death to fight the Alessandrini.

Boniface of Verona

In 1317, Boniface finally came to a full alliance with the Catalans; he married his daughter Maria (Marulla) to Alfonso Fadrique.

Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi

Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi (born 14 September 1927) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Gaborone, Botswana, from 1981 until 2009.

Boniface, Duke of Alsace

He succeeded Gundoin as duke in Alsace and was himself succeeded by Adalrich, founder of the Etichonids.

Boniface founded the a hunting lodge on the site of the future village of Wihr-au-Val around 660.

He "was involved" in the foundation of Gregoriental monastery around 662 and he was the first recorded donor to the abbey of Weissenburg in 661.

Büraburg

Boniface subsequently (742) elevated Büraburg to a bishopric, the first in Germany east of the Roman Limes, but after the death of the only bishop, Witta, in 748 the bishopric was incorporated by Lullus, Boniface's successor as archbishop of Mainz, into his own diocese.

Cardinals created by Nicholas IV

Pietro Colonna — cardinal-deacon of S. Eustachio; deposed on May 10, 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII; restored by Clement V on December 15, 1305 as cardinal-deacon without a title; then cardinal-deacon of S. Angelo (March 2, 1317), † January 7, 1326

Charles Etienne Boniface

In Cape Town, Boniface learnt German, Dutch and English and set himself up as a language and music teacher, particularly playing the French and Spanish guitars.

Donar's Oak

According to Willibald's 8th century Life of Saint Boniface, the felling of the tree occurred during Boniface's life earlier the same century at an unclear location at the time known as Gaesmere (several locations are recorded as bearing the name Geismar in Hesse).

Émilius Goulet

He was appointed Archbishop by Pope John Paul II on June 23, 2001 and was consecrated in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Boniface (in the St. Boniface District of Winnipeg), Manitoba on September 13, 2001 by Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal; Archbishop Maurice Couture, R.S.V.(Religieux de Saint Vincent de Paul), Archbishop of Quebec (City); and Archbishop James Vernon Weisgerber, Archbishop of Winnipeg.

Éveline Gélinas

Éveline Gélinas is a French-speaking Canadian actress who grew up in Saint-Boniface, Quebec, near Shawinigan.

George Simbachawene

George Boniface Taguluvala Simbachawene (born 5 July 1968) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kibakwe constituency since 2005.

Guillaume de Nogaret

By the aid of a Florentine spy, Nogaret gathered a band of adventurers and of enemies of the Gaetani (Boniface's family) in the Apennines.

The great Colonna house, at bitter feud with the Gaetani, was his strongest ally, and Sciarra Colonna accompanied Nogaret to Anagni, Boniface's birthplace.

Investors Group Field

This proposal, although rejected in favour of David Asper's plan, called for a $265-million stadium at the former Public Markets site in the St. Boniface industrial park, which Canad Inns purchased from the city.

Jean René Allard

He worked as a lawyer, served as leader of the Union Nationale Metisse, and was a member of the Louis Riel Society and the St. Boniface Historical Society.

Joseph Boniface de La Môle

He was the son of Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, of Marseille.

Missionaries of La Salette

At the request of Archbishop Langevin of St. Boniface, Canada, a few members were sent from the mother-house in Hartford to establish themselves in West Canada with headquarters at Forget, Saskatchewan from where they served in four parishes.

Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150

On this basis the cantata may date from Bach's time in Arnstadt, where he was organist of St Boniface's church until his move to Mühlhausen in the summer of 1707.

Pope Boniface IX

Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy.

Pope Boniface V

Boniface completed and consecrated the cemetery of Saint Nicomedes on the Via Nomentana.

Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg

He took part in several synods convened by Saint Boniface in Germany; in company with Saint Magnus of Füssen, he founded the monastery of Füssen; and with Saint Boniface he dedicated the monastery at Benediktbeuern.

St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church

St. Boniface Church was an eclectic example of Romanesque Revival and Ruskinian Gothic architecture.

St. Salvator's Church

The highalter was also dedicated to Boniface, who had died as a martyr in 754 at Dokkum.

Stuffo

The source for the latter designation comes from the 1602 Historia S. Bonifacii by Johannes Letzner, who claims that after Boniface destroyed the Donar Oak near Geismar (now in Fritzlar, Hesse) he traveled to the Stuffenberg in Eichsfeld, where the god Stuffo was worshiped by the local population.

Tassels in the Air

Many of the gags used in the table painting scene would be reused by Moe, Larry, and Shemp in their unsold television 1949 pilot Jerks of All Trades, which, coincidentally, also featured Symona Boniface.

The 411

Boniface was not correctly identified, Ben Miller ruling her out as a possibility as he thought she was "too young" to have been in a defunct girl band.

Thuringii

Their real Christianisation took place, alongside the ecclesiastical organisation of their territory, during the early and mid 8th century under Boniface, who felled their "sacred oak" at Geismar in 724, abolishing the vestiges of their paganism.

Unam sanctam

Known for his very impulsive interference in international affairs, Boniface's stringent reaction was the fierce bull Clericis laicos of 1296.

Université de Saint-Boniface

It is also close to the St. Boniface Hospital, the St. Boniface Cathedral, and the meandering Red River.

Witta of Büraburg

Witta of Büraburg (also known as Albuin or Vito Albinus, a close Latin translation of his Germanic name) (born in Wessex; died 747) was one of the early Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Hesse and Thuringia in central Germany, disciple and companion of Saints Boniface and Lullus.


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