Aubin of Angers

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Aubin (PR: Albin, Albina, White) (Géo: 73) (March 1st): born with Languidic close to Valves (?) or in Country of Guérande (?), in 468 or 469, resulting from an insular family of Brittany installed in Armorican Brittany, Monk, then Abbot of the Monastery of Tincillac, then in Country of Guérande (Bro Wenrann), then bishop of Angers in 529, in spite of him, deceased in 550.

Owner of Angers, Guérande, and many villages in France from which some bear its name. (Approximately 110 churches in France carry the term of Saint aubin, and 83 communes). Name resulting from Latin " albus" (white).

Saying: " Cut at the day of Aubin Saint, to have large raisins".

On March 1st celebrates.

Hagiography

It is established that it took part in the Council of Angers in 540, and bilingual (Breton, Latin-novel) where he was used as interpreter with Saint Tugdual near the king Childebert. It fought in its apostola the Péché, particularly the Inceste and the marriages between blood relations.

Of alive sound, it would have made Miracles: it delivers had, it ressuscite an young man named Malabothe. It released also innocent joles and its guard, irreligious person of course, who opposed her release died by the divine will.

Its body deposited in the abbey of Angers, was dispersed by twice, the first little time after its death by its successor with évéché of Angers (Eutrope) towards 575-580, and the second time in 873.

New miracles occur on its relics, of which a miraculous appearance of the saint, on a luminous horse according to certain authors, who causes the escape of Norman ( Northmen or Vikings) which besieged Guérande into 919.

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