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  Saint Botolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Botolph founded the monastery of Ikanhoe in East Anglia, and the place name was "Botolphston" (from "Botolph's stone" or "Botolph's town"), later shortened to "Boston".
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 St. Botolph, Boston's patron Saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Boston's Patron Saint Few people are aware perhaps that the city of Boston derives its name from that of an Orthodox saint.
Botolph, an early saint from Orthodoxy's Western heritage, preached the gospel in England in the seventh century.
Appropriately, an icon of the Saint was painted for the Holy Epiphany parish in Roslindale, a suburb of Boston, and was blessed on its patronal feast this year, when the parish also celebrated its fortieth anniversary.
www.roca.org /OA/115-116/115aa.htm   (282 words)

  
 Saint Botolph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Botolph is said to have been chaplain to the convent where two of his king's sisters lived, possibly at Chelles.
Botolph returned to England with the treasure he had found and begged King Ethelmund of the South Saxons for land on which to set it.
After his death, the saint's bones were transferred from Icanhoh to the relative safety of 'Grundisburgh' and in the early 1000s King Cnut authorised the removal of some of these precious relics to the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, which he had founded in 1020.
www.stedmundsbury.anglican.org /~burgh/ff/Botolph.html   (511 words)

  
 Jesuit Names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Saint Botolph, whose feast is celebrated on June 17, was born in England around 610.
Usually known as the Patron Saint of Youth, this catechist of Roman ragamuffins, consoler of the imprisoned, martyr of charity for the sick, just as appropriately and deservedly could be honored as a Patron Saint of the Social Apostolate.
Saints disrupt conventional assumptions about what is real and worth our while and what is not." It is not often that a brand new religious novitiate is blessed by the presence of a saint among its first novices.
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 Elizabeth HALES
Christened 16 MAR 1672 at Saint Mary the Virgin, Dover, Kent, England the daughter of William HALES and Alice...
Christened 6 JUN 1688 at Saint Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London, England the daughter of Thomas HALES and Elizabeth...
Christened 24 AUG 1720 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England the daughter of Edward HALES and Catherine or Katherine...
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 SAINTS AND FEASTS
Saint Botolph was born in Britain about the year 610 and in his youth became a monk in Gaul.
The sisters of Ethelmund, King of East Anglia, who were also sent to Gaul to learn the monastic discipline, met Saint Botolph, and learning of his intention to return to Britain, bade their brother the King grant him land on which to found the monastery.
Hearing the King's offer, Saint Botolph asked for land not already in any man's possession, not wishing that his gain should come through another's loss, and chose a certain desolate place called Ikanhoe.
www.goarch.org /en/Chapel/saints.asp?contentid=2337   (389 words)

  
 The Bells of Aldgate
Botolph was a pious Saxon Abbot who had built a monastery in Lincolnshire in 654AD.
Saint Botolph is the Patron Saint of Boston, Massachusetts.
Catherine Eddowes, a victim of the notorious Jack the Ripper was seen drunk in the vicinity of the church on the night of her murder on 30th September 1888.
www.rhymes.org.uk /bells-aldgate.htm   (237 words)

  
 Thomas HALLES or HOLLES
Christened 22 OCT 1686 at Saint Mary at the Quay, Ipswich, Suffolk, England the son of Thomas HALES and Elizabeth...
Christened 24 JAN 1696 at Saint Katherine by the Tower, London, London, England the son of Thomas HAILES and Sarah...
Christened 31 DEC 1704 at Saint Alphage, Canterbury, Kent, England the son of Thomas HALES and Mary...
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 Saint Botolph Neighborhood Association
The St. Botolph District is a 140 year old residential neighborhood and is a historical site protected by the St. Botolph Historic District Commission.
It consists of 8 blocks east to west, and its boundaries are Huntington Avenue, Copley Place, the Southwest Corridor Park and Massachusetts Avenue.
The St. Botolph neighborhood is known for the diversity of both its residents and architecture, and it has continued that diversity while maintaining its historic character.
www.stbotolph.org   (236 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Botulph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Educated with his brother at the monastery of Cnobersburg (Burgh Castle), Suffolk under the direction of its founder, Saint Fursey.
Botulph served as spiritual director for Saint Ceolfrith, and worked as a travelling missionary through rough, bandit-plagued areas of East Anglia, Kent and Sussex.
His legacy continued for centuries in the strength of the Benedictine movement in the Isles, and in the dozens of churches named for him, many of them built at city gates to serve as safe-haven for travellers in times when robbers roamed the roads, and many in port or river towns.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintb1h.htm   (489 words)

  
 Bettnet.com - Musings of Domenico Bettinelli
Botolph founded Ikanhoe monastery in 654 A.D. and was renowned as a wise and holy abbot.
After his death, Botolph became a popular medieval saint in his native land: seventy churches and five towns and villages in England (one of which, in Lincolnshire, being the original home of the Pilgrims) still bear his name.
There are a lot of cities named after Christian saints and concepts, not just in the southwest and in Spanish.
www.bettnet.com /blog/index.php/weblog/where_everybody_knows_youre_a_benedictine_saint   (278 words)

  
 Apostolate of Our Lady of Siluva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Saint Clotilde: She was a queen, the wife of King Clovis of the Franks, who brought the French people as a nation into the Catholic Church in 496, when he was baptized at Rheims by Saint Relogius.
Saint Philip was the father of four daughters, virgins, all of whom are honored as saints, and all of whom were given by God the gift of prophecy.
Saint Anthony is called "the Hammer of Heretics." His great protection against their lies and deceits in the matter of Christian doctrine was to utter, simply and innocently, the Holy Name of Mary.
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 Saints List
Here is the list of saints whose details are available.
Each may be visited by clicking on his or her name.
Some pages are shared by two or more saints - scroll down for the second or third ones.
www.angelfire.com /me4/saints/list.html   (56 words)

  
 Saint Botolph's Review No.2 - Reviewed by Ann Skea - Eclectica Magazine v10n3
They also sometimes met in the garden of the Saint Botolph's rectory, where one of them, Lucas Myers, had lodgings in a converted chicken shed.
Their decision to create and publish a new magazine was a youthful, but serious, challenge to the accepted literary fashions of the time, and on February 25th, 1956, at a memorable party, Saint Botolph's Review was launched and Ted and Sylvia met for the first time.
If you wish to order a copy of Saint Botolph's Review No.2, it is available now, for the price of £10 (us $18), including postage.
www.eclectica.org /v10n3/skea_ross.html   (712 words)

  
 SaintsB1
The blue field represents the sea, and the silver lines are waves; the gold cross and chevron may represent Botolph’s monastery at Ikanhoe, or his building of churches; the cross may be a reference to his status as Abbot.
The darker shade is the “true” colour, but the lighter shade is often better when reproduced on a colour ink-jet printer.
A red field with three flaying knives which have silver blades and golden handles.
www.angelfire.com /me4/saints/saintsb1.html   (166 words)

  
 Dimsdale
Sibella CLEMENTS Sibella and Isaac DIMSDALE (the son of Isaac DIMSDALE and Barbara) were married October 19, 1735 at Saint Anne And Saint Agnes Aldersgate, London, England.
Isaac and Sarah PALMER were married September 16, 1762 at Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate, London, England.
Elizabeth DIMSDALE Isaac and Sarah HARRIS (the daughter of George HARRIS and Sarah) were married October 24, 1770 at Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate, London, England.
members.shaw.ca /dimsdale/dim1.htm   (3760 words)

  
 Morley Saint Botolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morley Saint Botolph is a small village in the English county of Norfolk.
It is situated 4 km south-west of the town of Wymondham and 23 km south-west of the city of Norwich.
Morley Saint Botolph has a sister village, Morley Saint Peter, although the two are often simply referred to as "Morley".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morley_Saint_Botolph   (134 words)

  
 The Other Boston
Boston is dominated by the majestic 272-foot-high gothic tower of Saint Botolph's Church, the tallest in England.
The church's cornerstone was laid in 1309, at the height of Boston's prosperity from the wool trade.
The handsome raised wooden pulpit was built in 1612 for John Cotton, the popular Puritan vicar who preached in Saint Botolph's from 1612 to 1631, then went into hiding to escape persecution.
www.numag.neu.edu /0009/boston.html   (1428 words)

  
 Crusading Spirit
Philip built the beautiful Saint Mary de Haura Church for his town and gave it to Saint Florent Abbey of Saumur, possibly in thanksgiving for a safe return from the Holy Land.
Philip or his son may have been responsible for establishing the hospital of Saint Mary Magdalen between Bramber and Steyning in the area still marked with the name Maudlin.
Saint Mary's in Sompting, with its Saxon Rhenish helm, is unique in Britain.
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 Walkington Genealogy - pafg12 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sarah Elizabeth WALKINGTON was born 1864 in Rudland Farndale, Yorkshire, England.
was christened 22 Jun 1679 in Saint Botolph Bishopsgate, London, England.
was christened 31 Jul 1681 in Saint Botolph Bishopsgate, London, England.
users.bigpond.net.au /brian.walkington/walksoc/pafg12.htm   (289 words)

  
 St Botolph's barn (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
St Botolph's is the parish church of Helpston.
As well as its regular Sunday services the Church has held an annual gala on the village green since 1981 and hosts the village bonfire on Bonfire Night each year.
The Church is also the driving force behind the Botolph's Barn project.
www.botolphsbarn.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /church.htm   (225 words)

  
 Footnotes: Oct 28 | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Readers of small periodicals are, on the whole, a patient breed.
Even fully paid-up subscribers to magazines that claim to be bimonthlies or quarterlies accept, with a certain degree of equanimity, that an issue or three will fall out of the schedule.
But Saint Botolph's Review takes the notion of "an occasional journal" to a new extreme.
books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1933200,00.html   (230 words)

  
 The PUBS of Kent - Botolph's Bridge, West Hythe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A rather strange name for a pub in Kent as Saint Botolph, a hermit, was supposed to have lived in Suffolk or Lincolnshire in the 7th century.
To protect his remains during raids by the Danes, some monks decided that his coffin should be moved to a place of safety.
It is said that a miraculous light appeared in the sky and guided the monks to the final resting place of the Saint.
www.digiserve.com /peter/pubs/pubs-bbh.htm   (163 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Botulph
Botulph, the saint whose name is perpetuated in that of the American city of Boston, Massachusetts, was certainly an historical personage, though the story of his life is very confused and unsatisfactory.
What information we possess about him is mainly derived from a short biography by Folcard, monk of St. Bertin and Abbot of Thorney, who wrote in the eleventh century (Hardy, Catalogue of Brit.
His name is perpetuated not only by the little town of Boston in Lincolnshire with its American homonym, but also by Bossal in Yorkshire, Botesdale in Suffolk, Botolph Bridge in Huntingdonshire, and Botolph in Sussex.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02709a.htm   (583 words)

  
 William Anderson
Marriage: Turner, Catherine on 5 Jul 1768 in Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, U.K. Died: 26 Feb 1789 at age 64
William married Catherine Turner on 5 Jul 1768 in Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, U.K..
IGI Individual Record MOO1611 (1754-1784) Source Call No. 0380147 for Catherine Turner gives her marriage to William Anderson on the 5 July 1768 and reveals the location of the marriage at Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate.
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 Can You Help?
Married 1 Aug 1716 at Saint Benet, Paul Wharf
Any ideas on who this might be and where he fits the tree.
Saint Benet is very near Saint Peter, Paul Wharf.
www.ferdinando.org.uk /canyou.htm   (327 words)

  
 St. Botolph Club
It is designed to provide event information for members and their guests, as well as facilities information for members, their guests, and members of other clubs that have reciprocal privileges with the St. Botolph Club.
Botolph members wishing to visit reciprocal clubs should obtain a card of introduction from the club office.
Members and visitors may wish to use the page in planning their visit to Boston.
www.saintbotolphclub.org   (153 words)

  
 Saint Botolph's Review No.2
In 1956, like all those involved with the Review, Sylvia and Ted were young, unknown Cambridge undergraduates.
But the Review languished, those who wrote it, produced it and launched it went on with their lives, and only a few copies survived for scholars and collectors eventually to haggle over.
Only now, "a few decades later", have they revived the Viper Press because, as David Ross says, they want to celebrate "pieces of good writing, poetry and prose, which we think worth reading".
www.zeta.org.au /~annskea/SBR2.htm   (742 words)

  
 Saint Botolph at Follen poster and print from Zazzle.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Black and White image of the street signs and parking regulation sign on Saint Botolph Street in Boston's Back Bay (towards the South End really).
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Yet this will I say for Malkin, for so I call her, that unless you were to borrow a ride on the juggler's steed that paces a hornpipe amongst the eggs, you could not go a journey on a creature so gentle and smooth-paced.
Pursy and important, he sat him down at the table, and many a dark word he threw out, of benefits to be expected to the convent, and high deeds of service done by himself, which, at another season, would have attracted observation.
Yet this demure affectation of extreme penitence was whimsically belied by a ludicrous meaning which lurked in his huge features, and seemed to pronounce his fear and repentance alike hypocritical.
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