ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 28th of July WELCOME! SAINT BOTVID, MARTYR Saint Botvid is an 11th century Swedish Christian Saint who endeavoured to convert to the Faith a captive from Finland. Having as he thought succeeded, he sought to restore the neophyte to freedom and to his own country, but while on the voyage was cruelly murdered by the thankless object of his compassion (A.D. 1100). From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate THEY WERE HEADING FOR GOTLAND Botvid had redeemed a man of Slav origin from captivity and he wanted the man to return to his country and family in order to propagate the Christian religion. One of Botvid’s tenant farmers, Esbjörn (Esbernus), accompanied Botvid and the freedman on a boat, which was heading for Gotland. THEY WERE MURDERED While resting on an island called Rogö (Södermanland), the freedman took Botvid’s axe and killed both Botvid and Esbjörn in their sleep. Later, when Botvid...