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Méen
Breton saint
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 21 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
540
Died
617
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Gaël in Brittany, in France, Saint Méen, abbot, who, a native of Wales, withdrew into a forest in the interior of Brittany, where he founded a monastery.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 21 June as a Welsh-born abbot who founded a monastery in a forest in inland Brittany.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 21 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2565483 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Mewan (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.