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Venerable

Milo of Fontenelle

A hermit monk of Fontenelle Abbey in Normandy, reposed around 740.

Feast
August 18old style August 31
Reposed
7408th century
Place
Fontenelle Abbey

Life

Milo of Fontenelle became a monk at Fontenelle in France together with his father and later lived as a hermit. He reposed around the year 740. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 18 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 31 August of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day August 18