Saint Deicola

Also known as

• Deel
• Deicolus
• Deille
• Delle
• Desle
• Dichul
• Diey
• Deicuil
• Dicuil

Memorial

• 18 January

Profile

Older brother of Saint Gall. Monk. Studied at Bangor Abbey under Saint Comgall of Bangor and Saint Columba. Evangelized in Austrasia and Burgundy in 567. One of the twelve who accompanied Saint Columba to France and helped found the abbey of Luxeuil. When Saint Columba was exiled by Thierry II, Deicola, too old to accompany him, founded the monastery of Lure in the Vosges, France. He then retired to the monastery as a hermit.

Born

• in Leinster, Ireland

Died

• 625 at Vosges, France of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Representation

• hermit with a wild boar at his feet
• hermit with a ray of light shining on him
• with King Clothair

Additional Information

• Abbé Stéphane Ansart
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Deicola“. Saints.SQPN.com. 17 January 2013. Web. 19 May 2013. <>