The first Saint Fulk (there were three) was an
English pilgrim
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who was
beatified for his selfless assistance of
plague victims even when this was a risk to himself. He was travelling to
Rome
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sometime in the 12th century, when he stopped at
Santopadre, or
Castrofuli, in southern Italy, to help plague victims. He died of the plague, and was beatified and adopted as the
patron saint
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of Castrofuli. His cult was approved in 1572, and his
feast day
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is May 22.
References
Medieval English saints
12th-century deaths from plague (disease)
12th-century Christian saints
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