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Botolph, Botulph or Botulf (born 610, died circa 680) was an English abbot and saint. He is the patron saint of the various aspects of farming and the Danish patron saint of travellers. His feast day is celebrated either on 17 June (in England) or 25 June (in Scotland), and his translation on 1 December.

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Little is known about his life, other than doubtful details in a surviving account written four hundred years after his death by the eleventh-century monk Folcard. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records for the year 653¹: The Middle Angles, under earldorman Penda, received the true faith. King Anna was killed and Botulf began to build the church at Ikanho. There is no modern town named Icanho (which means 'ox-island' or more strictly, 'ox hill', as in Plymouth Hoe) and the location is disputed; it may be in southern Lincolnshire, where some of the newly Christianized Middle Angles lived, but is most likely to have been by the estuary of the Alde in Suffolk, where a church remains on top of an isolated hill in the parish of Iken; just the place for an early monastery. ². The Life of St Ceolfrith, written around the time of Bede by an unknown author mentions an abbot named Botolphus in East Anglia, "a man of remarkable life and learning, full of the grace of the Holy Spirit". Lincolnshire was not in East Anglia but Iken was³.

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