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Botwine
8th-century Christian saint
SaintPre-congregation
Born
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unknown
Died
780
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Botwine (died 785 or 786) was a Northumbrian saint venerated at Ripon and Peterborough. He is well documented as a priest, and latter Abbot of Ripon.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Oswald of Worcester Saint“The late 10th- and early 11th-century writer Byrhtferth of Ramsey in his Vita sancti Oswaldi claimed that Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, discovered Botwine's relics at the monastery of Ripon.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- A Benedictine Martyrology (Peter Lechner OSB, rev. ed.), 13 May — 13 May, no.2: 'On this day St. Oswald discovered the bodies of the Ven. abbots Botwin, Tilbert, Sigred and Wilden, who had governed the monastery of Ripon'. Index: 'Botwin, Ven. 129'.
- Wikidata Q4949196 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Botwine (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.