by Hefele, questionable by Haddan and Stubbs, and genuine by Jaffé. Between 612 and 615, the Irish missionary Columbanus, then living at Bobbio in Italy, was persuaded by King Agilulf of Lombardy to address a letter on the condemnation of the "Three Chapters" to Boniface IV. He told the pope that he was suspected of heresy for accepting the Fifth Ecumenical Council and exhorted him to summon a council and prove his orthodoxy. There is no record of a rejoinder from Boniface. Death Inspired by Gregory the Great, Boniface IV converted his house into a monastery, where he retired and died on 8 May. He was succeeded by Adeodatus I, who reversed his policy favouring monasticism. Boniface IV was buried in the portico of St. Peter's Basilica. His remains were three times removed — in the tenth or eleventh century, at the close of the thirteenth under Boniface VIII, and to the new St. Peter's on 21 October 1603. Boniface IV is commemorated as a saint in the Roman Martyrology on his feast day, 8 May. Notes References Citations Sources Attribution: Endnotes: Gregorovius, Ferdinand, II, 104 External links Biography from CFPeople.org Saints.SQPN: Boniface IV Santiebeati: Boniface IV 550 births 615 deaths People from the Province of L'Aquila Papal saints Popes Italian popes Italian Roman Catholic saints Popes of the Byzantine Papacy 7th-century archbishops 7th-century Christian saints 7th-century popes Burials at St. Peter's Basilica