Genevieve of Loqueffret

Genevieve of Loqueffret (Geneviève, Santez Jenovefa) is a Breton saint, who lived in the 9th and 10th centuries and is venerated in the Western Church. Her day is 3 January in the French source and 3 November in the Spanish source, like her namesake.

She was the sister of Saint Edern. According to the Spanish source, the two came together to Douarnenez and settled in a simple hut on a hill. Later Genevieve founded in the 10th century the monastery of Loqueffret, near Lannédern in Finistère, and earlier, in the 9th century, one in Cumbria in England. The church of Loqueffret, of the 15th and 16th centuries, is dedicated to her.

The sources are short and do not agree on the date of commemoration; very little is known of her life.