Gerulph

Today is the Feast of Saint Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist.  A real, and important Feast, but I figured, we always do him…so this year I figured we’d discuss:

Saint Gerulph

Also known as
Gerulfo
Gerolfo

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21 September

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Our Saint today has a name that sounds like an expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, or dismissal; a huff, grunt, or snort. As in, “I didn't get a gerulph out of that guy!”

“Give the Governor a gerulph!”

In any case he was a young man, drawn to the spiritual life, set to inherit a fortune on his way to his Confirmation. Gerulph was going to give much of his wealth to the poor, when he came into his inheritance. A greedy relative murdered him, hoping to have his inheritance, and therefore use it for his personal gain; not wasted on the needy. True to form, as he died, Gerulph forgave his murderer.

Died
746 in Flanders, Belgium