The Society of St Botolph

Few will be aware that there is actually a society devoted to the study of St Botolph, and the churches dedicated to him.  But there is.

The Society of St. Botolph (https://www.botolph.info/) is an association which is free to join. It’s purposes are:

The primary object of the Society is to remember, celebrate and raise the profile of Botolph, Britain’s most important forgotten Saint.

The secondary object is to provide communication, fellowship and a sense of ‘family’ between our relatively small cluster of seventy Botolph’s churches.

It has a regular newsletter, the Botolphian, full of material about Botolph, and the churches that bear his name.  Far from being purely superficial, this also contains some serious scholarly research.  For instance the April 2022 issue contains a very careful analysis of the sources to determine whether the relics of St Botolph spent a period at Burgh, or at Grundisburgh.

Thankfully the website is archived at Archive.org.

The secretary is D. S. Pepper, who took over from the founder and has run things enthusiastically for the last 12 years.  Highly recommended.

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