Saint
Riwari
A Breton saint honored in Brittany.
- Feast
- September 19old style October 2
- Era
- unknown
Life
Saint Riwari (also known as Rivoare, Riware, Riwall, Rivoal or Rioual) is one of the semi-legendary Breton saints of Armorica. He was a priest of the sixth century and an uncle of Saint Herve. Tradition calls him "the first emigrant priest on the continent": the Latin word that designates him, antistes, implies ecclesiastical authority, and bishoprics and monasteries were established only after his arrival in Armorica. Until then the missionaries who came from the British Isles were generally itinerant, without a fixed place on the continent.
His feast is kept on 19 September (new style, Western calendar). He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.
Commemorated the same day September 19
Theodore of CanterburySaint · Archbishop of CanterburySep 19
Theodore the BlackRight-Believing · Prince of Smolensk and YaroslavlSep 19
Goeric of MetzSaint · Bishop of MetzSep 19
Prochorus of PčinjaVenerable · Monk of PčinjaSep 19
The 156 Martyrs of PalestineMartyrSep 19
Trophimus, Sabbatius and DorymedonHoly Martyrs · Martyrs of SynnadaSep 19
Lantpert of FreisingSaint · Bishop of FreisingSep 19
Alexis of Zosima HermitageVenerable · Elder of Zosima HermitageSep 19
Constantine GolubevHieromartyr · Archpriest at BogorodskSep 19
Konstantin UlemetsRight-Believing · Prince of YaroslavlSep 19
David FyodorovichRight-Believing · Prince of YaroslavlSep 19- Nicholas of IskrivkaHieromartyrSep 19