Éguiner saint

Saint Éguiner belongs to many the saint Breton about whom one does not know large-thing, and which one wonders whether they really existed. Its name can be also written Éginer or Fingar .

Its legend wants that he is the son of a king of Ireland, driven out by this one because he had embraced the Christian faith. It embarks for the Brittany, where him a reception so favorable is made that it decides some time after turning over in its country to convince of other Christians to come to live with him in this so pleasant region. It would have built a hermitage on the commune of Pluvigner, (Morbihan), where its relics would have been transported after its death.

Disciples of Holy Patrick, him and his companions live as hermits. But, in 455, they are carried out on order of a prince called Théodoric.

The versions of the life of Éguiner saint are varied, and all do not give the same places inevitably nor the same dates. It gave its name to the communes of Loc-Éguiner and Loc-Eguiner-Saint-Thégonnec, in the Finistere. It is celebrated the March 23rd or the December 14th.

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