Botwulf of Thorney

Botolph, also Botulph, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Botulf, was an English monk of the seventh century. In the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Churches he is revered as a saint.

Credentials

Little is known about Botolph's life. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that he started 654 with the construction of a monastery in Icanho. A nearly contemporary source is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bede the Venerable Bede dar. reported herein that his teacher Ceolfrid traveled to East Anglia to be taught by the acclaimed widely for his scholarship and righteousness Botolph. A Vita Botolph emerged only in the 11th century, some 400 years after his death. This of Folcard, abbot of Thorney, written according to Scripture came Botulph a Saxon noble family. Together with his brother Adulph he supposed to have been sent by his parents to Christian monastic education in a convent on the Continent; Adulph remained on the continent, and was ordained a bishop of Utrecht. Botolph returned back to England, however, and here was the patronage Æthelmunds, a king of the fishing delight. Æthelmund Botulph allowed to build a monastery in a remote area. To 680 Botulph Reportedly deceased. Towards the end of the 10th century to Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, the bones Botulphs have divided as relics among the monasteries of Ely, Westminster and Thorney.

The exact localization of Botolph's monastery is controversial; the research going on today by the majority of them from that Icanho (literally " ox island " ) was located at the site of the present village of Iken in Suffolk. There in 1977 remains of an early medieval church were uncovered during excavations. The lexicon of the Middle Ages indicates, however, " comparatively convincing" is the thesis that there was the monastery in present-day village Hadstock in Essex. Finally, the City of Boston will lay claim to have been the site of the founding of the monastery, the place name Boston to go back to a shortening of Botolph 's town. The parish church of Boston, the famous high-Gothic St. Botolph's Church, is dedicated Botolph, as well as numerous other churches in England, especially in Norfolk. Botolph was widely venerated in the Middle Ages as a result of considerable extent were also made by English missionaries Christianization of Scandinavia in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.