Fulda, Saskatchewan, was named by a religious pioneer who was fond of Saint Boniface or who had perhaps visited the famous Benedictine abbey in Germany. The name was probably suggested by one of the Benedictine Fathers who arrived from Minnesota in 1903 to settle in the Humboldt district of central Saskatchewan.
On the above map, Fulda is shown north of Humboldt.
On this map Fulda is shown south-east of Wakaw, Saskatchewan. The original Fulda is in Germany on a river of the same name, northeast of Frankfurt. There in a crypt under the cathedral lies buried St. Boniface, called the Apostle of Germany. The crypt is shown in the photograph below.
St. Boniface (672 -754 anno Domini) was murdered on a priestly mission in 754 A.D. He held up a codex of the
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Bible to protect himself against his assassins, says the legend. The symbol of St. Boniface is a codex of the Bible with the blade of a sword plunged into the middle of the volume. And this original slashed codex of Saint Boniface is there in Fulda, Germany. So is an important relic, Boni's severed head. St. Boniface in Manitoba is named in honour of the same saint. His Latin name was Bonifacius, a Late Latin compound confection meaning “doer of good deeds.” 
