{"id":970,"date":"2020-06-16T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=970"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:06:59","slug":"saint-guenole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/saint-guenole\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint-Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"970\" class=\"elementor elementor-970\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-39b33ae elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"39b33ae\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb72610\" data-id=\"cb72610\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e508a25 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"e508a25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Breton mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7d6cdfc\" data-id=\"7d6cdfc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9bddfe5 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"9bddfe5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mythologie_bretonne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-287abe1f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"287abe1f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d376aa8\" data-id=\"3d376aa8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f56dc1f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f56dc1f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>At that time, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/\">Brittany<\/a>, two holy apostles, friends of God... Kaourintin, first bishop of Quimper (St-Corentin) and Saint-Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9, first abbot of Land\u00e9vennec... Often they had preached the faith in Is, and admonished the king on criminal acts, injustices , the crimes that were committed at the young girl&#039;s palace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Saint-Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/saint-guenole\/#Saint-Guenole\" >Saint-Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Saint-Guenole\"><\/span>Saint-Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>They were laughed at, and the king, weakened by age, no longer had enough authority to stop the disorders of the big city. God got tired when he saw this hardening and made known to the angel of Brittany, his friend Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9 that, without delay, the city would be flooded by the waters. Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9, mounted on horseback, ran to the city of Is with the thought of stopping the wrath of God ... But the time of pity had passed, when the saint arrived around midnight, the locks were open and the sea was rising. a terrible noise rolling over the inhabitants, over the houses and the palaces.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9 on horseback, is followed by Gralon. The old man, still a good father, despite his daughter&#039;s disorders, takes without the knowledge of the holy abbot, the great culprit on the back of his battle bidet. The waves of the sea were coming on them, quivering, they were about to be swallowed up, when a voice rang out: Gralon, Gralon, if you don&#039;t want to perish, get rid of the demon that you carry behind you.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The warning was from Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9, the angel of Brittany.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Ha Guenol\u00e9 enn eur grena<br \/>Ha gri: Gralon toll an diaoul-ez<br \/>Divar daillard da hin kane:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Immediately the waves stopped and we saw the punishment of heaven.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9 could only save Gralon\u2026 On the way, we can still see the trace of the horse&#039;s hoof on the rock, where the abbots of Land\u00e9vennec, before taking their charge, come to pray and recognize Gralon as the founder of the monastery.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ah\u00e8s, the bad girl, was changed into Mari-Morgan (who sings on the sea, or sea foam) half woman and half fish, when it is moonlight, we can still hear her singing on the ruins of the sunken city .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Her eyes are like two stars, her hair is the color of gold, her neck and soft breasts are as white as snow, her melodious voice charms and lulls to sleep. The sailors of the country, when they hear it, say to themselves with fear: let&#039;s move away, Ahes is out of his palace, bad weather is near, and if we delay, we will be thrown on the rocks, to sleep our last. sleep.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Like Sodom, Gomorrah, <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/babylonian-akkadian-assyrian-mythology\/\">Babylon<\/a>, It is no more, and the waves roll over its ruins. At sunrise, Gralon and Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9 climbed the Menez-Hom mountain, Gralon cast a look of pity behind him.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Where Is was, all you could see was the sea; he throws himself on his knees to thank God and the virgin: getting up, he saw on the sunset, R\u00fbmen-Goulou or Men-ru-ar-Goulou, on this stone we made human sacrifices: each month, a little child &#039;we tore from the udder.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>With eyes bathed in tears, raised to the sky, Gralon said to his friend: on this reddened stone dedicated to a barbarian God, I would build a church, in honor of the virgin, and there, where we pour blood in honor of Teutates, the mother of the true God will pour out her graces on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/breton-mythology\/\">Bretons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He was faithful to his word ... The pagan priests rebelled when they saw the temple destroyed. The king defeated them near Argol, at the head of the converted Bretons. His prayer ended, the king followed Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9 to Land\u00e9vennec, an abbey he had built. He had already given his Quimper palace to Saint Corentin. In place of this palace is the beautiful cathedral. Gralon spent the rest of his days at Land\u00e9vennec, in the most austere penance ... He often went with his friend to Rumengol,\u00a0<em>itron-varia-romedd-ol\u2026<\/em>\u00a0Our Lady of any remedy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The virgin appeared to him, and the rumor spread throughout Brittany. He died in the arms of Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9, at his Land\u00e9vennec abbey, which he had founded.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He commended his soul to God, saying with confidence:\u00a0<em>Itron Varia Rumengol, mirit ouzin na zin da Gall\u2026<\/em>\u00a0Madame Marie de Rumengol, cast your eyes on me so that I don&#039;t go to a loss.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This death has been around for a long time, and the Bretons who are people of faith and heart, remember their old king and his friend Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If they knew better the history of their beautiful country when they come to Trinity Sunday, forgiveness of Rumengol, we see the bay of Douarnenez, Menez-Hom, Land\u00e9vennec, the high and miraculous chapel, they would say tears to the eyes :<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Bras ar burzudou a zo bet<br \/>Bars an amzer treinenet:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Great miracles have been<br \/>in times gone by.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Many differ in opinion, not on the existence of the city of Is, but on its location.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>No one could shake these people&#039;s convictions, and let many people be illusions that the etymology of the word Paris is par-et-is, that is to say, equal to Is.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>A baou\u00e9 e confondet Is<br \/>Neus quet cavet by da Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>King Breton had his tomb in Land\u00e9vennec, in the abbey itself\u2026 his memory was perpetuated for a long time. For a long time we saw the two friends walking at night in the cloisters and on the terraces of the abbey, talking about the things of God\u2026 don&#039;t we see them yet?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Poetry had seized the image of these two shadows that one could see from afar, walking, conversing slowly, at the time of great festivals, that announced great events.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Lavar din ar Belek?<br \/>Parr\u00e8s Land\u00e9vennec<br \/>At lein \u00e8 di,<br \/>A vel roas e bal\u00e9<br \/>Gralon to Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9<br \/>In abbati.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It was always the priests who saw them, seems to say the Breton poet. The French translation does not say so.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Tell me, if we find out<br \/>When Land\u00e9vennec opens<br \/>His great forgiveness,<br \/>The shadow Augustus and darling<br \/>From Gu\u00e9nol\u00e9 who prays<br \/>With Gralon.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It was therefore always at times of feasts and solemnities that we saw them walking and praying.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breton Mythology Wiki At that time, there were in Brittany, two holy apostles, friends of God\u2026 Kaourintin, first\u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-970","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24631,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970\/revisions\/24631"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}