Mauguille

Mauguille was a hermit who lived in the seventh century near Saint-⁠Riquier in Picardy. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church.

He seems to have come from Ireland, and he is said to have reached Gaul together with Saint Fursey of Péronne. After Fursey's repose he withdrew to the abbey of Saint-⁠Riquier, then left the community and founded a hermitage on the banks of the river Authie, at Monstrelet. He fell ill and was helped by an English hermit named Vulgan. They lived together for a time, then Vulgan died, and Mauguille followed him to the grave soon after.

He was first buried in the chapel of his hermitage, and toward the end of the tenth century his body was moved to a small church near the abbey of Saint-⁠Riquier. In 1125 the relics were brought into the abbey church and, in the sixteenth century, placed in a gilded wooden shrine. The sculptures of the north portal of the abbey facade tell the story of the saint. The sources consulted give no day of commemoration.