Several Scottish monasteries were founded in Germany by eminent monks who came from that country, as at Vienna in Austria, at Strasburg, Eichstade, Nuremberg, Constance, Wurtzburg, Erfurth, two at Cologn, and two at Ratisbon.
He was a Scottish priest and preacher, (not a bishop, as some moderns pretend), and finished his course about the year 651, at Condé, where his body still reposes in a collegiate church endowed with twenty-four canonries.
That Wasnulph was art Irishman by birth is admitted by most writers: and to make this statement more emphatic, the Belgian Martyrologies state, that he came to their country from the seagirt isle of Scotia.
Neither is it clear that he had been ordained priest, before he engaged himself for a foreign missionary career...[4] This holy man, having left his native country to serve the Almighty, chose the monastic profession as that most congenial to his love of humility and contemplation.
The Belgian Martyrologies relate, that St. Wasnulph, coming from the sea-surrounded island of Scotia, settled at the wood or grove of Teroacia or Therascia ; and that for a long time he led a holy life in a place afterwards known as cella, or the cell.
[5] We are told, that when our saint left the monastery of Gislen, through angelic guidance, he came to the ancient town of Condate, where a community of holy nuns lived under an abbess, and their patroness was the Blessed Virgin Mary.
It seems most likely, that Wasnulf visited Count Vincent, a little before the middle of the seventh century; for, about this period, a great influx of distinguished Irish missionaries was remarked on the European Continent.
Father Stilting places little reliance on the statement of the ancient writer of the Life of St. Vincent, Count of Hannonia, regarding the holy men who are said there to have been his contemporaries, and some of whom are known to have lived long after his time.