WULFRAM (Wulframus, Wulframm), Archbishop of Sens, Saint. - Apostle of the Frisians. He belonged to the Frankish military nobility. Born ca. 630 at Mauriliacus, an unidentified place, in the diocese of Meaux, died at Fontenelle ca. 698.

After living for a long time at the court of Clotaire III and Theodoric III, V. entered the Benedictine abbey of Fontenelle (St-Wandrille), probably around 687-88, the time of the donation of the estate of Mauriliacus to the monastery. With some monks, among them the deacon Wandon, V. went around 689-90 to evangelize the Frisians, who had then been conquered by Pepin of Heristal. He returned a few years later, discouraged perhaps by the meager results obtained among Radbod and his people or by the independent attitude of the missionary group of St. Willibrord. He was given the archiepiscopal see of Sens (694-95), but then withdrew to Fontenelle, where he died on a 20th of March, under the abbot Hildbert. His body was buried in the chapel of St. Paul, then transferred, in 704, to the main church. Feast in the diocese of Rouen on 20 March, at St-Wandrille on 1 June (in memory of the translation of the relics in 1027).

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BIBL.: BHL, nos. 8738-42; Suppl., no. 8738. Abbé Sauvage, Abrégé de la vie et des miracles de St W., Rouen 1876; F. Lohier and G. Laporte, Gesta st. patrum Fontanelleus coenobii, ibid. 1936, pp. 20-21, 90; Inventio et miracula st W., in Société d'hist. de Normandie, Milanges, 14 (1938), pp. 1-81. On the Vita Wulframni of pseudo-Jonas, later than the Saint by half a century, and on the second abbreviated life cf. A. Legris, in Anal. Bolland., 17 (1898), pp. 287-295 and the criticism of his conclusions made by W. Lewison, Zur Kritik der Fontanelle Geschichtsquellen, in Neues Archiv, 25 (1900), pp. 593-607.

Clemente Schmitt

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