Fulrad
Counselor of both Pippin and Charlemagne
Feast: 16 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Fulrad (French: Fulrade; Latin: Fulradus; 710 – 16 July 784) was a Frankish religious leader who was the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He was the counselor of both Pepin the Short and Charlemagne. Historians see Fulrad as important due to his significance in the rise of the Frankish Kingdom, and the insight he gives into early Carolingian society. He was noted to have been always on the side of Charlemagne, especially during the attack from the Saxons on Regnum Francorum (Latin for Francia), and the Royal Mandatum (a royal official of the Carolingian administrative hierarchy). Other historians have taken a closer look at Fulrad's interactions with the papacy.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 16 July — 'ST FULRAD, Abbot (a.d. 784) — The abbey of Saint-Denis near Paris was one of the most famous monasteries of Europe in the middle ages; St Fulrad was the most famous of its abbots.' Listed at 16 July, matching the feast.
- Wikidata Q720849 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Fulrad (CC BY-SA)
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