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Also known as

• Guenaël
• Guenaud
• Guénault
• Guennal
• Guinal
• Gwenael
• Gwendal
• Gwenhael

Memorial

• 3 November

Profile

Son of a Breton chieftain. Educated at Landevennec, Brittany (in modern France under Saint Winwaloe in 489. Monk at Landevennec. Abbot of Landevennec in 532. Missionary to Britain and Ireland where he abolished the last pagan customs. Helped establish Cornouailles in Brittany in 546.

Born

• in Brittany (in modern France)

Died

• c.550 at Landevennec, Brittany (in modern France) of natural causes
• interred at Corbeil, France
• remains destroyed during the anti-Catholic excesses of the French Revolution

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Corbeil, France
• Landevennec, France
• Vannes, France

Representation

• causing a spring to gush forth

MLA Citation

• “Saint Guénhaël“. CatholicSaints.Info. 12 June 2018. Web. 28 February 2020. <>