Walaric

Saint Walaric,[a] modern French Valery (died 620), was a Frankish monk turned hermit who founded the abbey of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme [fr].

Taught to read at a young age, he abandoned the occupation of tending sheep to join the abbey of Autumo.

[1] When Theuderic II, king of Burgundy (r. 595–613), expelled Columbanus from his domains, Walaric and a fellow monk named Waldolanus left the kingdom to preach the gospel in Neustria and, according to tradition, the Pas-de-Calais.

According to the legend, Walaric appeared in a vision to Hugh Capet (r. 987–996), the first Capetian, and thanked him for rescuing his body from the Carolingians.

Duke William II of Normandy had Walaric's relics put on public display and invoked his name in a prayer for a favourable wind for his invasion of England.

Walaric prophesying to Hugh Capet in a vision. From the 14th century Grandes Chroniques de France .
Walaric's abbey in the 17th century