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Balay
SaintDate unknown
Feast: 12 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Saint Balay was a Breton hermit at the beginning of the 6th century in the territory of Ploermellac and a monk of the monastery of Landévennec. His spiritual teacher was the holy abbot Winwaloe.
Summary translated from the Czech Wikipedia article Svatý Balay (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Nominis (Conférence des évêques de France) — Saint Balay — "Saint Balay (VIe siècle)" — kept by the French bishops' conference among the Breton saints.
- Wikidata Q67101548 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.