Today is St Botolph's Day.
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St Botolph was Abbot of Icanho or Ox Hill, in what is now Iken in Suffolk in the 7th century. A market town in Lincolnshire took the name ''Botulfeston", from St Botolph which first appears in 1460, with an alias "Boston".
Thus, the capital of Massachusetts is ultimately the namesake of this little-known early mediaeval Anglo-Saxon Saint.
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