Friard

Saint Friard (Friardus of Indret) was a hermit on an island of the Loire near Nantes in France, and he reposed around 577. He was born in 511 into a family of laborers. At the age of fifty-⁠three he decided to retire into solitude and austerity to the island of Vindomitte near Nantes, where he was soon joined by Secundel, a deacon of Nantes. They led poor, humble lives of prayer and penance.

According to Gregory of Tours, between 526 and 549 they settled in Besné in the marshes of Brière, where they lived in separate cells. Friard died in 577, some time after Secundel. They became the patron saints of the parish. They are commemorated together on 1 August as saints of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.