Blind from birth, bard and monk, he remains one of Brittany’s best-loved saints.
Breton tradition makes him the son of a Welsh bard who came to Childebert's court and of a girl of the country, born blind around 521. Raised by his mother and then by a hermit uncle, he lived by charity and by singing: he went from village to village led by a child, composing hymns in Breton, and people came to hear him. Founder or abbot of the monastery of Lanhouarneau, he refused the priesthood and remained a simple monk. His most persistent legend has a wolf that had eaten the donkey drawing his plough let itself be harnessed in its place to finish the ploughing. He is invoked against diseases of the eyes, for the blind and the sick; his name is among the most given in Brittany, and his pardon is still kept.
A blind monk led by a child, a docile wolf beside him or harnessed to a plough.