The first Saint Fulk (there were three) was an

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who was

beatified Beatification (from Latin ''beatus'', "blessed" and ''facere'', "to make”) is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their nam ...

for his selfless assistance of

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victims even when this was a risk to himself. He was travelling to

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sometime in the 12th century, when he stopped at

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, or Castrofuli, in southern Italy, to help plague victims. He died of the plague, and was beatified and adopted as the

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of Castrofuli. His cult was approved in 1572, and his

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is May 22.

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