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Died c. 686. Ultan, an Irish monk like his brothers Saints Fursey and Foillan, went with them on a missionary journey to East Anglia. There, with Fursey, he founded Burghcastle Monastery near Yarmouth but migrated to France and the Abbey of Saint-Quentin, then to Belgium, to escape raiding Mercians. His brother Foillan built and became abbot of Fosses Monastery on land given to him by Blessed Itta and her daughter Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. During this time Ultan was chaplain to Gertrude's convent and taught them chant. He succeeded his brother in the abbacy at Fosses and later he became abbot of a monastery at Perrone, where he died. He was buried in Fosses Abbey (Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney, Montague).


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