Desiderius of Fontenelle

Saint Desiderius of Fontenelle, a holy monk, was a monk of the monastery of Fontenelle (Saint-⁠Wandrille) in Normandy and reposed around 700. He was the son of Waningus (Vaneng), a Merovingian official from Rouen, who helped to found the abbey of Fontenelle and afterward founded the convent of nuns at Fécamp.

His father entrusted him to the abbot of Fontenelle to be educated, and he later became a monk in the same abbey. His name appears in the second life of Saint Wandrille (Wandregisilus), where he is mentioned as an especially worthy monk, and for that reason is counted a saint; nothing else is known of him. After the abandonment of Saint-⁠Wandrille in the middle of the 9th century his relics were moved to Ghent in Belgium. He is commemorated on 18 December, by the Western calendar (new style), as a saint of the undivided Church.