Enora

Saint Enora, also called Henora, Honora or Enor, is a Breton saint, the wife of Saint Efflam, honoured in Brittany. The source consulted places her in the seventh century; in the different versions of the legend she was a princess of Wales, of Ireland or of the Saxons.

According to the Life of Saint Efflam, written in the twelfth or thirteenth century but holding older traditions, Enora was betrothed to Efflam, who had vowed chastity and proposed that they live as brother and sister in order to devote themselves to God. On their wedding evening Efflam fled and settled near Plestin-⁠les-⁠Greves in the Tregor, where he founded a hermitage. Soon afterwards Enora followed him, crossing the Channel in a leather coracle that ran aground at Yaudet. Her husband had a cell built for her not far from his own, after the rule of the mixed communities (conhospitae), and the two devoted themselves to the religious life until their death.

She is regarded as the patroness of pregnant women and wet nurses and is commemorated on 14 October in the Catholic calendar. A statue of her stands in the church of Saint-⁠Efflam at Plestin-⁠les-⁠Greves, and since 2015 also in the Valley of the Saints.