Corentin of Quimper

History records little of him and his dates remain disputed: the sources place him anywhere between the fifth and the seventh century, and none settles the matter. Breton tradition makes him a hermit at the foot of the Menez-Hom, living off a single fish which each day let a piece be taken from it and then made itself whole again in the spring where he returned it. King Gradlon, hunting nearby, is said to have found him and given him land for a monastery before making him bishop of the town that would become Quimper. He is counted among the seven founding saints of the Breton sees, whose tombs the Tro Breizh — a pilgrimage attested since the Middle Ages — links on a circuit of six hundred kilometres. Quimper cathedral bears his name, and his feast on 12 December is still kept in the Breton dioceses.