Vandrilium (600–668)

Biography

He became a monk and seemed to have the need to travel to progress on spiritual paths. We find him successively in France, Switzerland, Italy, again in Switzerland and finally, he set out on his way to Ireland, which he still did not know, but he never arrived, because Saint Audoenus stopped him while he was crossing Normandy, and managed to retain him in his diocese. Vandrilio founded an abbey at Fontanelle, in the Jumièges forest, of which he was the first abbot and which now bears his name.