Gobain

Saint Gobain (Goban) was an Irish monk, a disciple of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle in Norfolk, England. He was born in Ireland and was a brother of Saint Wasnon. He accompanied Fursey to France; some accounts have him at the abbey of Saint-⁠Vincent in Picardy or at Corbény in Champagne, before he settled in a hermitage in the forest of Voas, near the present Saint-⁠Gobain. It is said that there he brought forth a spring by thrusting his pilgrim's staff into the ground.

In 670 he was beheaded by marauders and buried in his oratory, which became a place of pilgrimage. Our record gives the year of his death as 586, but the source we follow says 670. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 26 March (new style; 8 April in the old style); some western sources commemorate him on 20 June.