Wulfram of Sens

Saint Wulfram of Sens
St Wulfram, from his church in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Bishop and Confessor
Born	probably Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France
Died	20 March 703 Fontenelle, France
Venerated in	Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion
Major shrine	Abbeville; Grantham
Feast	20 March 15 October (Translation of his mortal remains)
Attributes	Bishop baptizing a young king; cleric with a young king nearby; cleric arriving by ship with monks and baptizing a king; baptizing the son of King Radbod
Patronage	Abbeville, France

Saint Wulfram of Fontenelle or Saint Wulfram of Sens (also Vuilfran, Wulfrann, Wolfran, Latin: Wulframnus French: Vulfran or Vulphran; c. 640–20 March 703) was the Archbishop of Sens. His life was recorded eleven years after he died by the monk Jonas of Fontenelle. However, there seems to be little consensus about the precise dates of most events whether during his life or post mortem.

Saint Wulfram is depicted in art as baptising a young king, or the son of King Radbod. Sometimes the young king is near him and sometimes Wulfram is shown arriving by ship with monks to baptise the king. There are two churches dedicated to him in England, at Grantham, Lincolnshire and Ovingdean, Sussex, and one in France at Abbeville, in the département of Somme. As a patron saint, he protects against the dangers of the sea.

Wulfram was born in the diocese of Meaux, at Mauraliacus, an insecurely identified place near Fontainebleau, probably Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne. He was the son of a certain Fulbert, a knight attached to the court of Dagobert I, king of the Franks. King Dagobert's kingdom was divided on his death, and it was close to the court of his partial successor, Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy that Wulfram is likely to have been born a little after Dagobert had died in 639.