Venerable
Wandregisilus
Founder of Fontenelle Abbey in the Caux region of Normandy, reposed in 668.
- Feast
- July 22old style August 4
- Reposed
- 6687th century
- Place
- Caux
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Wandregisilus (Wandrille) is the founder of Fontenelle Abbey in the Caux region of Normandy, and he reposed in the year 668. He was born around 600 near Verdun, served in the king's palace and married. After a pilgrimage to Rome his wife entered the monastic life, and he became a monk at Romain-Moutier. Some ten years later he founded the monastery of Fontenelle in the north of France, which came to have over three hundred monks.
He is commemorated on 22 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.
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