Aalborg’s existing Budolfi Cathedral has been built…

Aalborg’s existing Budolfi Cathedral has been built in the last decades of the fourteenth century over and around the original St Budolfi Church and is listed for the first time in the Atlas of Denmark in 1399.

The church is named after St Botolph, an English abbot and saint.

His reputation as a learned and holy man in Anglo Saxon England as the patron saint of farmers and sailors make him a popular saint in pre-Reformation Denmark.

His remains are venerated at Westminster Abbey, Ely, and Thornley Abbey.

No references are made to relics of St Botolphus at Aalborg, but it is not uncommon for churches to be named after the relics of the most famous person the church possessed.

Other churches in Denmark and southern Sweden have also been named after him including St Bodel and St Bodil, other Scandinavian forms of the name Botolph.

The church has been constructed in the Gothic style out of Denmark's most common building material, large bricks.

The nave and choir measure at present fifty-six meters in length and twenty-two meters wide, exclusive of the weapons porch and extensions.