Saint Walfrid
- Also known as
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Galfrido
Gualfredo
Gualfredus
Qualfredo
Qualfredo della Gherardesca
Walfridus
- Memorial
- 15 February
- Profile
- Eldest of five children of a wealthy family.
Properous married layman, solid citizen, and father of five sons and a daughter.
With their children grown, he and his wife, Thesia, each felt called to religious life.
Walfrid and two married friends, Fortis and Gunduald, founded the Benedictine monastery of Palazzuolo, and a nearby convent for their wives and Walfrid's daughter.
Walfrid served as abbot, and the monastery was soon home to 60 monks.
Walfrid's son later entered the monastery, became a priest, had a terrible lapse of behavior and faith, reconciled with the monastery and the Church, and served as the 2nd abbot.
Gundual's son enterd the monastery, served as 3rd abbot, and wrote a biography of Walfrid.
- Born
- 8th century Pisa, Italy
- Died
- 15 February 765 at Palazuollo, Italy of natural causes; buried nearby with his wife
- Canonized
- 1861 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed)
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