July 28th

Blessed Botvid

Blessed · Common of Missionary Martyrs · Sweden

In Sweden, Saint Botvid, martyr, who, a Swede by birth and baptized in England, devoted himself to the evangelization of his homeland, until he was killed by a man whom he himself had ransomed from slavery.

Latin Original

In Suécia, sancti Botvídi, mártyris, qui, suécus génere et in Ànglia baptizátus, pátrize evangelizatióni se trádidit, donec a viro, quem ipse a servitüte redémerat, occísus est.