Gulstan of Rhuys

Gulstan of Rhuys (also called Goustan) was a monk of Rhuys in Brittany, born in 974 in Cornouaille, converted by Saint Felix of Rhuys, and he reposed around 1040 at Beauvoir-⁠sur-⁠Mer. He is remembered on 27 November, and according to some sources also on 27 January.

Tradition tells that pirates had corrupted the young Gulstan and that he sailed the seas with them, an accomplice in their robberies. Felix, a hermit of Ushant, later abbot of Rhuys, brought him back to the right way through his example and words. He then withdrew to the island of Hoëdic, with Felix's permission, with a certain Budic, and founded a hermitage there. He died in 1040 at the priory of Beauvoir-⁠sur-⁠Mer. He rests, like his teacher, in the church of the abbey of Saint-⁠Gildas-⁠de-⁠Rhuys, where a plaque above the sarcophagus bears the inscription Sti Gulstani sepulchrum.

He is usually shown holding a fish in his hand and is the protector of sailors and fishermen; the wives of the sailors of Le Croisic sing a prayer to him to bring their husbands home. He is honored in many places in the dioceses of Vannes and Nantes. At his old well in Auray a divination of marriage with a needle was practiced.

He is a local saint of Brittany, in the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.