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Leaving everything to pray, yet still drawing people who needed wisdom.

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June 7 · Priest, Hermit

St. Wulphlag

St. Wulphlag

Leaving everything to pray, yet still drawing people who needed wisdom.

Traditional feast

June 7
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Priest
Hermit

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 135 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

…married a pious wife shortly before he was ordained priest, and by her became the father of three daughters, who grew up virtuous and God-fearing. S. Wulphlag was appointed to the charge of Rue, near the sea, between the rivers Somme and Authie. But after a while he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and on his return announced to his wife and daughters that he was resolved to embrace an eremitical life.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Make time for silence. Solitude and withdrawal to pray shape this life.

Learn from the kind of life it was. Leaving everything to pray, yet still drawing people who needed wisdom.

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The full original · 135 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Galilean Martyrology of Saussaye, Ancient Martyrology of Centulle, and venerated in the diocese of Amiens. Authority: — An ancient life quoted by Ignatius the Carmelite in his Historia Abbavillana, 148a] S. Wulphlag, a native of Ponthieu, from his earliest childhood was devoted to the service of the altar. He Lives oj the Saints.

…married a pious wife shortly before he was ordained priest, and by her became the father of three daughters, who grew up virtuous and God-fearing. S. Wulphlag was appointed to the charge of Rue, near the sea, between the rivers Somme and Authie. But after a while he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and on his return announced to his wife and daughters that he was resolved to embrace an eremitical life. He retired into a cell which he constructed at Regnie l’Ecluse, in a wild and desolate spot He was consoled there with the news that his daughters had renounced the world and taken the vows of monastic life. He died in his hermitage, and was buried at Requier. His body was afterwards translated to S. Sauve, at Montreuil-sur-Mer, where it now rests.

Feast days

Feast: June 7

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Sources & notes

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Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.