Riok

Saint Riok (Rioc) is a Breton saint of Armorica, a hermit and later a monk at Landévennec, known from a single source, Albert le Grand's Lives of the Saints of Armorican Brittany. He lived in the sixth century as a son of the lord Élorn, who held a castle on the banks of the Dourdon, near La Roche-⁠Maurice.

At two years old the child is said to have been saved from the claws of a dragon by two knights from the island of Britain, Derrien and Néventer. In thanks Élorn became a Christian with his wife and son and built the church of Plounéventer. After his mother's death Riok withdrew near Camaret, where he lived forty-⁠one years on a rock in the sea, eating herbs and small fish and wearing only a plain cassock. Saint Guénolé, abbot of Landévennec, called him to his monastery, where he ended his life in the fragrance of holiness. He is said to have been proclaimed a saint in the year 633 by Saint Budoc, third archbishop of Dol. His name survives in Riec-⁠sur-⁠Bélon and in Lanriec, now a district of Concarneau. His feast is kept on 12 February (new style, Western calendar). He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.