Gobrain

Saint Gobrain (Gobrien) was the nineteenth Bishop of Vannes in Brittany, in the eighth century, and reposed in 725 according to the calendars, though one source says 735.

He is thought to have been born around 660 in the region of Vannes and to have been trained in the spiritual life at the abbey of Saint-⁠Gildas de Rhuys. He returned to Vannes, was ordained priest, and on the death of the bishop was elected in his place. He lived virtuously, cared for the poor and the sick, and tended his own spiritual life. After seventeen years as bishop, at the age of eighty-⁠seven according to the calendar, he left the episcopate and withdrew as a hermit near Josselin; his body was laid in the chapel of Saint-⁠Gobrien. According to a legend, the sick were cured if they laid a handful of nails on his tomb, until the nail rusted.

He is a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 16 November (New Calendar); in the Roman Catholic Church his day is 10 November.