Walfroy
stylite
Feast: 21 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Wulflaich was a Lombard Catholic deacon and holy man in 6th-century Francia. He is known only from the Ten Books of Histories of Gregory of Tours, who recounts how he chose to live as a stylite (that is, atop a pillar) in the diocese of Trier during the episcopate of Magneric (before 587) and the reign of King Childebert II (576–596).
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Gregory of Tours Saint“He is known only from the Ten Books of Histories of Gregory of Tours, who recounts how he chose to live as a stylite (that is, atop a pillar) in the diocese of Trier during the episcopate of Magneric (before 587) and the reign of King Childebert II (576–596).” — Wikipedia
- Nominis (Conférence des évêques de France) — Saint Walfroy, stylite puis moine dans les Ardennes († 595) — The Lombard deacon Vulfilaic, disciple of St Aredius and of St Martin, who set up as a stylite on the hill of the goddess Arduinna in the pays d'Yvois; Gregory of Tours records him. Mont Saint-Walfroy holds his tomb and
- Wikidata Q3565338 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Wulflaich (CC BY-SA)
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