Tulle of Manosque

Tulle of Manosque (Saint Tulle, in Latin Sancta Tullia) is a Christian saint who, according to tradition, was the daughter of Saint Eucherius and the sister of Saint Consortia, a virgin and martyr at Manosque in Provence, around 430. The first mention of her is in the Life of Consortia, of the 7th or 8th century. Her very existence is doubtful, and the cult appears only in the 11th century.

The legend says that she died soon after being shut in and was buried in the rock crypt of the chapel of Sainte-⁠Tulle. She is also honoured as a saint against plague at Cucuron, in Vaucluse, where her relics were moved shortly before 1403; popular voice attributes to her the end of the great plague of 1720. Since then, every year, on her feast, a may-⁠tree, a poplar more than twenty metres high, is set up, and its transport has required up to more than sixty bearers. The village of Sainte-⁠Tulle, in Alpes-⁠de-⁠Haute-⁠Provence, bears her name. She is commemorated on 5 October, in the Western calendar (new style). Venerated locally, as a saint of the undivided Church.