Few will be aware that there is actually a society devoted to the study of St Botolph, and the churches dedicated to him.\u00a0 But there is.<\/p>\n
The Society of St. Botolph<\/a> (https:\/\/www.botolph.info\/<\/a>) is an association which is free to join. It’s purposes are:<\/p>\n The primary object of the Society is to remember,\u00a0celebrate\u00a0and\u00a0raise the profile\u00a0of Botolph, Britain\u2019s most important forgotten Saint.<\/p>\n The secondary object is to provide communication, fellowship and a sense of ‘family’ between our relatively small cluster of seventy Botolph\u2019s churches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It has a regular newsletter, the Botolphian<\/a>, full of material about Botolph, and the churches that bear his name.\u00a0 Far from being purely superficial, this also contains some serious scholarly research.\u00a0 For instance the April 2022 issue<\/a> contains a very careful analysis of the sources to determine whether the relics of St Botolph spent a period at Burgh, or at Grundisburgh.<\/p>\n Thankfully the website is archived at Archive.org.<\/p>\n The secretary is D. S. Pepper, who took over from the founder and has run things enthusiastically for the last 12 years.\u00a0 Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Few will be aware that there is actually a society devoted to the study of St Botolph, and the churches dedicated to him.\u00a0 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,\u00a0celebrate\u00a0and\u00a0raise the profile\u00a0of Botolph, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[332,334],"class_list":["post-55095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-botolph","tag-botwulf"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}