Wulfric

Saint Wulfric (Wolfeius) of Holme was a hermit of Norfolk in England and reposed on 9 December, around 1020 according to some sources, while our records give 1000.

The monastery of St Benet at Holme, founded in 820, had been destroyed by the Danes in 870, when Saint Suneman and his monks lost their lives. In 960 Wulfric rebuilt it. He gathered seven other monastics and governed the community for sixty years. King Cnut esteemed him and around 1020 granted the community his estate at Horning and the villages of Ludham and Neatishead. It is told that Maynard, the official who had slandered Wulfric and his companions, broke his neck by divine intervention. A note from 1479 calls Wolfeius the first hermit of the monastery and shows that he was commemorated on 9 December.

He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 9 December (New Calendar).