Saint Botolph
Gender: Male
Year of birth: Unknown
Year of repose: 680AD
Feast day: 17th June
Founder of a monastery at Iken, Suffolk.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 653 "The Middle Angles, under earldorman Peada, received the true faith. King Anna was killed and Botwulf began to build the church at Ikanho". The Life of St Ceolfrith mentions an abbot named Botolphus in East Anglia, "a man of remarkable life and learning, full of the grace of the Holy Spirit".
His relics were later transferred to Bury St Edmunds