Gerulf

Saint Gerulf (Gerolf) was a young man of Flanders, from Merendree, unjustly slain around 746 and honoured as a martyr. He is regarded as the patron of young people.

His relics were taken from his grave at Merendree around 915 or 930 and are kept at Drongen. He is commemorated on 21 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.