Conval

Saint Conval (Gunval) is a Breton saint, an abbot in the diocese of Tréguier, who lived around the year 580. According to tradition he lived at Penvénan and Plougrescant. In Latin his name appears as Cunualus.

The old account says that he first settled in the forests of Garz, between Hanvec and L'Hôpital-⁠Camfrout. To build an oratory he cut down an oak grown by the local lord, who flew into a rage and rushed at the saint. As he left, Conval said that from then on no wood for the axle of a cart would be found in that place; his word came true. He then withdrew into the forests of Cranou, where a more kindly lord let him choose his trees. The saint said that the forests of Cranou would never run short, and so it was.

He is commemorated on 10 September, by the Western calendar (new style). He has no official canonization; he is honored in the Breton tradition as a saint of the undivided Church.