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Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.

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July 14 · Confessor

St. Dentlin

St. Dentlin, Boy

Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.

Traditional feast

July 14
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Confessor

Early life

Selected sentences from the original account, unaltered.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 18 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

He is represented on the shrine of his father as a boy with a hawk on his wrist.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Witnessing to Christ by the way of life, not by death.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 14 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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The full original · 18 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian and Cologne Martyrologies. Authority Mention in the Life of his father, S. Vincent Madelgar; and the Lections of the church of Rees.] This little boy Saint was son of S. Vincent Madelgar and S. Waltrudis; his name was Dentlin, or Denain; he died in his white baptismal garments, in early childhood. He is probably only venerated because his father, mother, aunt, brother and sister are numbered with the Saints. He was buried at Rees, in the county of Cleves.

He is represented on the shrine of his father as a boy with a hawk on his wrist.

Feast days

Feast: July 14

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Dentlin's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on July 14
St. Phocas

St. Phocas

July 14 · Bishop, Martyr
V

St. Vincent Madelgar

July 14 · Confessor
R

St. Ragnulf

July 14 · Virgin
← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.