Blessed Fulk of Toulouse
- Also known as
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Folquet
the Minstrel Bishop
- Memorial
- 25 December
- Profile
- Professional minstrel.
Benedictine Cistercian monk at Thoronet, France.
Abbot in 1200.
Bishop of Toulouse in 1206.
Helped Saint Dominic found the DominicanOrder of Preachers by providing him a base of operations, books and equipment, and one-sixth of the church tithes.
Venerated by the Cistercians.
- Born
- c.1155 at Genoa, Italy
- Died
- 1231 of natural causes
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