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Gunthiern

A Welsh prince who became a hermit in Brittany, reposed around 500.

Feast
July 3old style July 16
Reposed
5005th century
Place
Wales

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