Dinault

Dinault, also called Donoald, was a boy of twelve or thirteen who received the crown of martyrdom at Milly-⁠sur-⁠Thérain in Oise, France, in the time of the great invasions. The Vandals, in their raid through the Beauvais region, killed him by beheading near a spring, on 11 August 407 according to the French source. Tradition places the martyrdom in the meadows between the villages of Milly and Moimont.

The saint's spring still exists; the old inhabitants credited it with healing power, and pilgrims came to ask his help for the cure of epilepsy. After the destruction of the church of Milly in 1436, in the Hundred Years' War, his bones were taken to the abbey of Saint-⁠Lucien at Beauvais and were lost during the Revolution. In the parish church of Milly a stained-⁠glass window shows his martyrdom, and a statue shows him with the palm of martyrdom. He is commemorated on 11 August in the Western calendar (new style); some sources give 10 August. He is venerated locally, as a saint of the undivided Church.