Saint
Hinguethen of Vannes
Saint of Vannes, who reposed in the 7th century, venerated in the Western Church.
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- Reposed
- 6597th century
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Hinguethen of Vannes was bishop of Vannes in Brittany in the 7th century. The source presents him as the thirteenth bishop of the diocese, or the ninth according to the Gallia Christiana, and counts him among the saints of the West, but his cult is uncertain.
He succeeded Saint Budoc and received Saint Meriadec into his clergy; Meriadec would later succeed him. According to Albert le Grand, a Dominican of Morlaix, he died in 659 and held the see only two years. It seems he permitted no cult in the diocese of Vannes, and the calendar of the abbey of Saint-Méen-le-Grand, which places his feast on 10 May, makes no mention of him. Some think he is the same as Saint Ganton, who gave his name to a parish of the diocese of Rennes.
Nothing survives of his deeds, writings or miracles. The sources being vague, the saint must be received with the same reserve.