Boniface of Valperga [SEP] canonization status
Boniface of Valperga
Boniface of Valperga (Italian: "Bonifacio di Valperga") (died 25 April 1243), venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church, was a thirteenth-century Bishop of Aosta.
Boniface was born in the second half of the twelfth century into a noble family of the Canavese which claimed descent from Arduino d’Ivrea. He was educated at home and subsequently by his uncle Arduino, Bishop of Turin. He entered the religious life as a monk at the Benedictine abbey of Fruttuaria, about twenty
Boniface of Valperga (died 1243), venerated Bishop of Aosta
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