Gohard of Nantes

Holy Gohard of Nantes , martyr in 843 with his companions. Festival on June 25th.

Évêque of Nantes and Seigneur of Blain, it was under its episcopate that in Blain even took place an important feat of arms between Francs and Breton S.

Voir Bataille of Blain (843)

Saint Gohard did not have only to undergo the consequences of these fights between Francs and Breton; he knew more terrible enemies come from the Scandinavian countries and which already had devastated the north of France: the Normand S. Those were presented in front of the town of Nantes, one month after the defeat of Blain. The feastday of Holy Jean Baptist, Saint Gohard celebrated Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of the mass in front of a many assistance the faithful ones. The Norman ones made irruption in the holy place, killed the Pontife, and massacred his people.

Ten years afterwards, the same barbarians went up the Loire again; and this time set fire to the city. During more than one hundred years, cut off in some islands from the Loire, they did not cease devastating the country. They were a plague so frightening that the Eglise of Nantes had added in the litanies: of the fury of Norman, deliver us, Seigneur . It was only in 939 that the victorious sword of Alain Bores-Torte drove out them definitively country and brought back peace in the cities and the campaigns.

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