Gurloës of Quimperlé

Gurloës of Quimperlé (also called Urlo, Urlou or Ourlou) was the first abbot of the abbey of Sainte-⁠Croix at Quimperlé in Brittany, and he died in 1057. He is remembered on 25 August.

He was blessed as abbot on 14 September 1029 by Orscand, bishop of Vannes, and settled in the new abbey with twelve monks who came, like him, from the abbey of Saint-⁠Sauveur at Redon. On the same day Alan Canhiart gave the monastery a domain including Lothéa, Baye, Mellac, Tréméven and Belle-⁠Île. He died in 1057, after governing the abbey twenty-⁠eight years less twenty days, according to Dom Placide Le Duc. He was declared blessed by the pope.

In 1083 his relics were raised in the crypt of the abbey. From then on he was much honored, being invoked for headaches and kidney pains and for gout; in Breton gout is called the evil of Saint Urlou. Little is known of his life proper.

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