Saint Wandrille of Fontenelle

Also known as

• Vandrille of Fontenelle
• Wandregisel of Fontenelle
• Wandregisilus of Fontenelle

Memorial

• 22 July

Profile

Member of the court of King Dagobert I. Married. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy, his wife became a nun and Wandrille became a monk at Montfaucon, Switzerland. Spiritual student of Saint Balderic. Hermit at Saint-Ursanne, Jura, France. Monk in Bobbio, Italy. Priest, ordained by Saint Ouen of Rouen. Founded the Abbey of Fontenelle in Normandy, France in 657.

Born

• c.600 near Verdun, Austrasia (in modern France)

Died

• 668
• during the Viking invasions, Wandrille’s relics were dispersed to assorted church and abbeys
• in the 19th century his skull was found in storage in Liège, Belgium
• skull returned to the Fontenelle Abbey‘s new church in 1967

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Wandrille of Fontenelle”. Saints.SQPN.com. 21 July 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-wandrille-of-fontenelle/>