Wulphy
Feast: 7 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Wulphy (Vulflagius) married young and lived with his wife and three daughters at Rue, near Abbeville. When the town's priest died, the people chose him as their pastor, and with his wife's consent he was ordained by St Riquier. He later broke his resolve by returning to married life, repented, went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and on his return lived as a hermit, where people came to him for teaching and healing.
He probably died about 643, and his relics were moved to Montreuil-sur-Mer in the ninth century. Butler warns that there is very little solid evidence for his story, though he was strongly honoured at Montreuil, and he may be the same as, or confused with, St Walfroy.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
A married priest turned penitent hermit, long honoured at Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. II - 7 June
- Wikidata Q16683447 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.