Wandregisel

Wandregisel ( * before 600 at Verdun; † probably 668 at the Abbey of Saint- wall groove, in Normandy ) was a founder and missionary monastery in the 7th century and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He is best known under the French form of the name Saint- wall groove.

Biography

Wandregisel came from a noble family and was possibly related to the progenitor of the Carolingian Arnulf of Metz. As a young man he was married, but both spouses decided shortly after the wedding in a convent enter and dissolved the marriage by mutual agreement. Initially he worked in high position at the court of the Merovingian King Dagobert I, who wanted to win him back after his admission to a monastery nor his court. Around the year 630 he became a monk, first in Montfaucon ( near Verdun ), then. At the Abbey Bobbio and later in Romainmôtier On the way from Montfaucon to Bobbio (Italy ), he founded the grave of Ursicinus on the banks of the Doubs, the monastery of Saint- Ursanne. A stay in the city of Rome is mentioned only in the second biography (9th century).

Around 645 he met in Rouen Bishop Audoin, and received from him the priesthood. Then remained Wandregisel in northern France. The founding of the Abbey of Fontenelle by Wandregisel (now Saint- wall groove) ( to 649 ) goes back to this time. The house Neustrian Meier Erchinoald gave him a piece of land there. He then worked as the first abbot of the monastery. He cared particularly to the construction of the monastery and the abbey could secure many donations.

Worship

His feast day is July 22, in the diocese of Lausanne- Geneva - Fribourg July 14. In the Abbey of Saint groove wall in addition January 31 is celebrated as the day of the survey of his bones.

His relics were reburied in the year 704 within the abbey. Because of the threat posed by the Normans subsequently took place many relics movements. 886 they came to Ghent (Belgium ), 1047 and 1062 were part of the relics brought back to the Abbey of Saint - wall groove. The skull fragment, however, was brought to Namur, where it was rediscovered in 1877. This was in 1883 placed in the Maredsous Abbey in Brogne. Since 1969, the skull fragment rests in the Church of the newly founded Benedictine Abbey of Saint groove wall, whose patron saint is also Wandregisel.