Primael

Saint Primael (Primel) was a hermit in Brittany, a native of Britain or, by French sources, of Wales, who lived near Quimper in Cornouaille in the time of Saint Corentin in the fifth century. He reposed around 450. He is commemorated on 16 May, and in the calendar of the Breton saints on 15 May.

Albert le Grand tells that he was a solitary priest leading a very holy life in a forest in Cornouaille, and that Saint Corentin came to visit him to receive his instruction. The two spent the day in spiritual conversation and the night in prayer. In the morning Primael, who was lame, went far to a fountain to fetch water for the Liturgy. Corentin saw him weary and prayed that God would give water nearer; after the Liturgy, at the spot where he had planted his staff, a spring burst forth.

At Saint-⁠Thois there was a chapel of Saint-⁠Primel, now destroyed, built on the site of an old oratory, and the parish church of Primelin bears his name.