17th JUNE: ST BOTULPH [BOTOLPH, BOTWULF]
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1. St Botulph and St Adulph were two noble English brothers who opened their eyes to the light of faith in the first dawning of the day of the gospel upon our ancestors.
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2. Astonished at the great truths which they had learned and penetrated with the most profound sentiments which religion inspires, they travelled into the Belgic Gaul there to find some religious houses and schools of virtue, which were then scarce in England.
3. Such was the progress of these holy men that they soon were judged fit to be themselves masters. Nor was it long before St Adulph became Bishop of Maastricht, which he administered in so holy a manner, that he is honoured in France among the saints on the 17th of June.
4. St Botulph returned to England. Consulting king Ethelmund he begged some barren spot of ground to found a monastery. The king gave him the wilderness of Ikanho, where he built an abbey, and taught the brethren whom he assembled there the rules of Christian perfection,
5. and the institutes of the holy fathers.
He was humble,mild and affable. All his discourse was on things which tended to edification,and his example was still far more efficacious to instil the true spirit of every virtue.
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6. When he was oppressed with any sickness he never ceased thanking and praising God with holy Job. Thus he persevered to a good old age. He was purified by a long illness before his happy death, which happened in the same year with that of St Hilda, 655.
(Excerpts from Butler's "Lives of the Saints")
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