WALA, Saint. - Benedictine, descended from the Carolingian royal family, b. ca. 755; d. at Bobbio on 31 Aug. 836.

Educated in the palace school, he held among other things the office of counselor to Louis the Pious; but he soon withdrew from it, entering the monastery of Corbie, where he held various offices. In 815 he collaborated in the foundations of Corvey and Herford; he accompanied Lothair on the journey to Rome in 822-25. In 826 he succeeded his brother as abbot of Corbie, where he strove to restore the much-decayed monastic discipline. He proved himself a valiant defender of the sanctity of marriage in the matter of the empress Judith with the margrave Bernard of Septimania, and for this reason he was driven into exile (830-33). Gregory IV sent him to Alsace to resolve the discords of the imperial family. He died in the abbey of Bobbio, where he had been appointed abbot.

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BIBL.: his life was written by Paschasius Radbertus: Vita Walae in the form of a dialogue (BHL, 876); PL. 120, 1557-1650; MGH, Scriptores, II, 533-60; J. Mabillon, Acta SS. Ord. 1. Bened., 2nd ed., IV, 1, Venice 1936, pp. 455-522; G. Rodenberg, Die «Vita Walae» als historische Quelle, Gottling 1877; A. Zimmermann, Kalend. Benedict., III, Metten 1937, pp. 4-8.

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