Botolph’s main claim to fame was the expulsion of evil spirits from the marshlands of Suffolk — likely he oversaw the draining of swamps and removal of the noxious marsh gas with its unholy night-time glow. In what few writings survive from the next couple of centuries he is described as a man of epic religiosity and grace, and by all accounts he could really hold his mead. It seems his general tremendousness saw him canonised some time during the 8th or 9th centuries, perhaps even by the coolest Pope of all, Pope Zachary.