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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Miliau

Breton prince slain in 531, honored as a martyr in Brittany.

Feast
October 27old style November 9
Reposed
5316th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Miliau (Miliav) was a Breton prince slain in the year 531, honoured as a martyr in Brittany. He gives his name to the village of Guimiliau, where he is especially venerated. He is invoked in cases of rheumatism. He is sometimes shown as a saint holding his own severed head. The accounts of him are legendary and hard to separate from what was really so.

Commemorated the same day October 27