Saint Guénhaël
Also known as
- Guenaël
- Guenaud
- Guénault
- Guennal
- Guinal
- Gwenael
- Gwendal
- Gwenhael
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
- 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
- causing a spring to gush forth
MLA Citation
- “Saint Guénhaël“. CatholicSaints.Info. 2 November 2015. Web. 20 April 2018. <>