St. Sturmi

Disciple of Saint Boniface

Sturmi was the son of Christian parents in Bavaria.

He was placed under the direction of St. Boniface, the great apostle of the Germans, who, in turn, entrusted the youth’s education to St. Wigbert in the abbey of Fritzlar.

In due course ordained a priest, Sturmi was a missionary in Westphalia for three years, after which he took to an eremitical life.

Later, when St. Boniface founded the monastery of Fulda in 744, he appointed Sturmi abbot. The favorite foundation of St. Boniface, Fulda became a point from which Germany could be effectively evangelized and the pattern-seminary of priests for all Germany.

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