ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 22nd of July WELCOME! SAINT VANDRILLE, ABBOT Saint Vandrille (Vandregisil, Wandregisilus , Wandregisel, Wando) in his youth was made count of the palace under Dagobert I. To retrieve himself from the dissipation and other ill effects, of which hurry and much conversation with the world are dangerous occasions, he frequently retired into his closet, and there conversed much with God by devout prayer, and with himself by serious consideration on his own duties, condition, and spiritual miseries. In compliance with the will of his parents he took to wife a virtuous and noble lady; but, on the very day of his marriage, obtained her consent that they should both consecrate their virginity to God, which they did by a mutual vow on the same day. HE TOOK THE MONASTIC HABIT AT MONTFAUCON Vandrille, in 629, took the monastic habit at Montfaucon, in Champagne, an abbey then lately founded by St Baudri. He afterwards built a ...