Envel

Saint Envel (in Breton Envel the Elder) is venerated in Brittany at Locquenvel, near Belle-⁠Isle-⁠en-⁠Terre. According to tradition he came from Britain with his brother and their sister, called Evette or Theumette (Sainte Jeune), because of the troubles at home. They settled in the dense forest of Coat-⁠en-⁠nos, where the brothers cleared a glade and lived in prayer, receiving those who came for advice. He is said to have won the release of a prisoner, and a few links of a chain are kept in the church. He is invoked against wolves and cattle disease, and his feast is kept on 11 December. No early life survives; the veneration is local, without synodal canonization.