Wendelin (or Wandelin)

a saint of the 7th century whose day is October 20, and who is said to have been of Scottish family. He established himself as a hermit in a forest in the neighborhood of Treves, and afterwards as a herdsman in the late principality of Lichtenberg. His fidelity in this service led the monks of Tholey on the Saar to elect him their prior. The circumstances of his life and career are to be found recorded solely in the Acta SS. Boll. Juli 6:171, and similar legendary depositories. Comp. Vogt, Rhein. Gesch. u. Sagen. 1:283 sq.; Rettberg, Kirchengesch. Deutschlands, 1:480; Berlepsch, Die Alpen in Natur u. Lebensbildern (Leips. 1861), page 386 sq.; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v.