Clervie

Saint Clervie (in Breton Klervi, Klerwi) is a saint of Brittany, born around 475 in Armorica, in the Welsh settlement at Ploufragan, and living in the 6th century. Her name means "jewel" or "pearl".

She was the daughter of Saint Fragan and Saint Gwenn Teirbron, and her brothers were Saints Jacut, Guethenoc and Guenole. Tradition keeps the story of an event: one day, while hunting wild geese near the castle of Lesguen, a goose tore out one of her eyes and swallowed it. Her parents were deeply grieved. Saint Guenole, warned by an angel as he prayed in his monastery, came to his parents, caught the goose, took out the eye and put it back, making the sign of the cross; the eye came out more beautiful than it had been. On the fountain of Saint Guenole at Saint-⁠Frégant in Finistère the saint, his sister and the goose are depicted.

Clervie is commemorated on 3 October, and sometimes on 21 December, by the Western calendar (new style). She is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.