Magloire saint

See also: Saint-Magloire

Saint Magloire is one of many the Breton Saints that the traditions make come from On the other side of the channel to continental Brittany.

The saint is given as the cousin of Samson saint whom it would have succeeded on the seat archiépiscopal of Fraud. On the injunction of an angel, he would have abdicated in favor of Budoc saint to withdraw itself on the island of Sercq (Sargia), where he led thereafter a monastic life to the head sixty two disciples. Magloire is thus supposed to have lived at the end of the Life century.

The circumstances of the drafting of the Latin Life and the Miracles of Magloire saint are not cleared up yet. According to the specialists, the composition of this qualified document of “chief of work of the old literature bretonne" by the abbot François Duine could take seat between the beginning of second half of IXe century and the medium of Xe century.

Its festival falls on October 24th.

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Holy Samson

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