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
- Order
- Venerables
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.
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