Saint
Laouenan
A saint venerated in the Western Church, of whom few details survive.
- Era
- 5th century
Life
Laouenan is, according to tradition, a disciple of Saints Tudwal and Paul Aurelian and the patron saint of the parish of Tréflaouénan in Finistère, in Brittany. According to Abbé Le Guen, he and Tévédec, two disciples of Paul Aurelian, evangelized the tribes from which the parishes of Plouzévédé, Plouénan and Tréflaouénan were formed. He is commemorated in Brittany on 23 January, in the rest of the Catholic Church on 23 November, and in the East, according to the French source, on 15 February. No further details survive in our sources. A Breton saint venerated locally, with no known synodal canonization.