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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Doetval

A saint venerated in the Western Church, of whom few details survive.

Feast
January 21old style February 3
Era
6th century

Life

Doetval is a Breton saint, commemorated on 21 or 22 January, in the Western calendar (new style). Doetval, Ingenoc and Eumael are said to have been princes of Brittany, all three sons of King Hoël III and his wife Pritelle, married in 590, who lived in the 7th century and would have been companions of Saint Winoc. Having emigrated to Flanders, they were forgotten in Brittany, where they have no cult. No other details survive in our sources; the late dating shows a legend rather than a sure history. Venerated locally, with no known synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day January 21