Venerable
Gunthiern
A Welsh prince who became a hermit in Brittany, reposed around 500.
- Feast
- July 3old style July 16
- Reposed
- 5005th century
- Place
- Wales
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Gunthiern (also Gurthiern, Guthiern or Gunthiernus) was a Welsh prince who became a hermit in Brittany. According to the Life of Saint Gurthiern, he founded an abbey at Quimperlé. He reposed around 500.
He is commemorated on 3 July among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar; he is also venerated by the Catholic Church.
Commemorated the same day July 3
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