Saint Gunthiern
Moine (VIe siècle)
Il était originaire du Pays de Galles. Pour vivre en ermite, il se retira dans l'île de Groix sur la côte du Morbihan, puis près de Quimper en Bretagne. Son corps fut caché durant les invasions normandes. Son culte reste vivace en Bretagne et particulièrement à Quimperlé.
"l'ère des saints": de 600 à 800 environ
Tous étaient issus des clans bretons. Au XIIème siècle, la voix populaire a vu en eux les "Pères de la Patrie", "Tadeu ar Vro" et les a proclamés "saints". De cette époque datent la christianisation des sources, des menhirs, des arbres sacrés et la substitution des personnages de l'entourage de Jésus à des entités divines du panthéon druidique. Plusieurs de ces évêques ont laissé des traces dans notre toponymie : Guénin, Mériadec, Meltro, Hamon, Gobrien, Gorgon, Jacut,... auprès de qui se trouvent les noms des grands moines ou pères spirituels : Gildas, Gunthiern, Gwénaël, Cado, Goal... Dans les années 700, 70 unités paroissiales plus ou moins nettes existaient dans le pays vénète, 25 d'origine romaine et 45 de formation bretonne.
- La lignée des évêques de Vannes par le Père Mahuas, doyen
du Chapitre Cathédral, à l'occasion des vœux à Mgr Centène en janvier
2006, diocèse de Vannes.
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7441/Saint-Gunthiern.html
Saint Gunthiern
Fils d'un roi breton de
Cambrie, en Bretagne insulaire, Gunthiern débarque en Gaule au VIe siècle
et s'établit sur l'île de Groix (Morbihan). À la nouvelle de ses prodiges, le
roi Gradlon le fait venir sur le continent. Gunthiern fonde alors l'abbaye
Sainte-Croix à Quimperlé. Les reliques du saint, après avoir été cachées sur
l'île de Groix lors des invasions vikings, sont conservées à Quimperlé.
SOURCE : http://fr.topic-topos.com/saint-gunthiern-langolen
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Prince who
became a hermit in Brittany.
The local lord, Grallon, gave Gunthiern land on the Isle of Groie, near River
Blavet to found a monastery. It
survives today as the Benedictine house
of Kemperle.
Legend says that insects once
threatened to destroy the region’s crops. Count Guerech I of Vannes, France,
requested the saint‘s
help. Gunthiern blessed some
water and had it sprinkled over the fields. The insects fled,
and the crops were saved.
Born
c.500 in Brittany (in
modern France)
of natural causes
his body was hidden
during the Norman invasions, and was lost for a while
remains re-discovered in
the 11th
century
relics were
translated to the Kemperle monastery
Additional
Information
Book
of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Alban
Butler
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of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
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Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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MLA
Citation
‘Saint Gunthiern‘. CatholicSaints.Info.
30 June 2020. Web. 10 June 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-gunthiern/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-gunthiern/
Article
(Saint) (July 3) (5th
century) A Welsh Prince who led the life of a hermit in Brittany, where he
passed away about A.D. 500.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Gunthiern”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
27 July 2013. Web. 10 June 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-gunthiern/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-gunthiern/
Gunthiern of Brittany
(AC)
Died c. 500. Gunthiern, a
Welsh prince, left his homeland in his youth to become a hermit in Brittany
(Armorica). On the Isle of Groie near the mouth of the Blavet, he was given
land for a monastery by the local lord, Grallon, who was impressed by
Gunthiern's holiness. The abbey is known as Kemperle, which indicates its
location between the Isol and Wile Rivers. Once a swarm of insects threatened
to devour the crops. Count Guerech I of Vannes, dreading a famine, sent three
dignitaries to request the saint's intercession to turn away the scourge. Gunthiern
blessed some water and told them to sprinkle it over the fields. When they
followed Gunthiern's instructions the insects were destroyed.
During the Norman
invasions, Gunthiern's body was concealed in the isle of Groie. When it was
discovered in the eleventh century, it was translated to the monastery of
Kemperle, which now belongs to the Benedictine Order. Saint Gunthiern is patron
of this abbey as well as of many other churches and chapels in Brittany
(Benedictines, Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0703.shtml
St. Gunthiern, Abbot in
Brittany
THIS saint flourished in
the sixth century. He was a prince in Wales, which he left in his youth, and
retired into Armorica to live a recluse. He stopt at the isle of Groie, which
is about a league from the mouth of the Blavet. Grallon was then lord of the
isle, and was so edified at his conversation, that he bestowed on him, for
founding a monastery, the land between the confluence of the rivers Isol and
Ellé. For which reason even to this day, the abbey is called Kemperle, which in
the old British language signifies the Conflux of Ellé. One year that a
prodigious swarm of insects devoured the corn, Guerech I., count of Vannes,
dreading a famine, deputed three persons of quality to engage the saint’s
prayers to God for turning away the scourge. Gunthiern sent him water which he
had blessed, which he desired to be sprinkled over the fields, and the insects
were destroyed. The count, in gratitude for this extraordinary blessing, gave
him the land near the river Blavet, which was then called Vernac; but is now
known by the name of Hervegnac or Chervegnac. The saint, it is thought, died at
Kemperle. During the incursions of the Normans, his body was concealed in the
isle of Groic. It was discovered in the eleventh century, and brought to the
monastery of Kemperle, 1 which
now belongs to the Benedictin Order. St. Gunthiern is patron of this abbey as
well as of many other churches and chapels in Brittany. He is mentioned in
ancient calendars on the 29th of June, but the moderns place his feast on the
3rd of July. See Lobineau, Vies des SS. de Bretagne, p. 49.
Note 1. The abbey of
Kemperle is three leagues from Port-Louis and eight from Quimper. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume VII: July. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/7/033.html
Abbaye Sainte-Croix de QUIMPERLE – Quimperlé ` https://www.infobretagne.com/abbaye_de_quimperle.htm
