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According to his closely posthumous Vita (BHL 8762), Walaricus (d. ca. 620; also Gualaricus, Walric, Valéry, and many more) was a native of Auvergne. In about 611 he settled as an hermit on the headland of Leuconay in the Somme estuary. Still according to that Vita, Walaricus attracted disciples and these founded a monastery in whose primitive church Walaricus was buried. In 627 Chlotar II funded new buildings on the site, whose church became a popular pilgrimage destination and survived several raids by Northmen. Known by the name of its saint, its town is now Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme (Somme). In 1066 a duke of Normandy who had assembled a fleet in the immediate vicinity is said to have had Walaricus' remains publicly exposed in order to obtain a fair wind for his nautical enterprise.
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John Dillon
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