Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian Martyrologies. Authority:— A Life written by a monk in the 10th cent.] At Dronghen, or Tronchiennes, in Belgium, on this day is celebrated the festival of S. Gerulf, patron of the parish. This saint, who is invoked against fever, was born at Merendre', a village not far from Ghent, of which his father, Luitgild, was the lord. From earliest infancy the piety of Gerulf was remarkable. One day he went to Ghent with great joy, in a white robe, to receive the sacrament of Confirmation in the abbey church of S. Pierre, from the hands of Eleiseus, Bishop of Noyon and Tournai. On his way back, in company with an uncle, they stopped to dine at Tronchiennes. Then they remounted their horses and rode forward, but on the way his uncle stabbed him with his sword, probably hoping by the death of Gerulf to secure to himself succession to the estates of Count Luitgild. The young martyr lived to pardon his murderer, and to implore his father to bury him in the abbey of Tronchiennes, and to give to it the lands which, had he lived, he would have inherited.