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Gurthiern
Welsh-born Breton saint
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 3 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
450
Died
—
unknown
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Gurthiern (also Guthiern, Gunthiern, and Gunthiernus) was a Welsh prince. According to the Vita sancta Gurthierni, he became a hermit in Brittany and founder of an abbey at Quimperlé. He is a Catholic and Orthodox saint with a feast day on 3 July.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Sources
- Nominis (Conference des eveques de France) - Saint Gunthiern — Welsh prince turned hermit in Brittany, founder of the first monastery at Quimperle; feast 3 July. Nominis, the French bishops' conference saints database, records him and says his veneration is kept in four chapels - Clohars-
- Wikidata Q1659568 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gurthiern (CC BY-SA)
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.