Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Nantes Breviary on Dec. 11. His name occurs in the 7th cent English Litany published by Mabillon in his Annals. Authorities: — The ancient lections for the festival of the saint in the breviaries of Quimper, L^on, and Nantes. See Albert le Grand and Lobineau.] S. Corentin, first bishop of Quimper, in Brittany, was a native of Armorica. He had a hermitage in the parish of Plou-Vodiem, at the foot of Mont Saint-C6me, where there was a little spring of water that filled a basin. By a special miracle a fish lived in this basin, which served Corentin with a meal every day. He put his hand into the water, drew out the fish, cut off as much of its flesh as he wanted, [Dec. x» and then threw it back into the spring, where it recovered itself before his next meal And thus the same fish served him for several years.1 There was a lame priest, a hermit, named Primael, who had a chapel near Ch&teauneuf-de-Faon. Corentin went to visit him. He slept the night at his hermitage, and next morning, Primael went to fetch water from the spring, which was at some distance. As the old man was lame, and the way long, Corentin pitied him, and driving his staff into the ground, brought forth a bubbling fountain at the hermit's door. Two eminent saints 2 visited him one day. Corentin was in despair. He had flour, and could give them pancakes for dinner, but pancakes, before it was understood how to season them with sugar, nutmeg, and lemon, were thought very insipid. He went to his fountain to have a look at his fish. It would be killing the goose that laid the golden eggs, if he broiled for his visitors the entire fish. But, to his great joy, he found the spring full of plump eels. He cooked them for dinner in light wine; and his visitors left, licking their lips, and glorifying God for having given them so dainty a meal.

However, one day King Grallo lost his way when hunting, and arrived hungry at the cell of the saint. Corentin was obliged then to cut a large slice out of the back of his fish. The king's cook, without whom Grallo prudently did not lose himself, scoffed at the small supply, but as he began to fry the slice of fish, it multiplied in the pan sufficiently to satisfy the king and all who came up to the hermitage. Grallo was naturally curious to see the fish itself, and Corentin 1 “ Ubi eju* sanctitatem Deus, cujus cum simplicibus sermocinado est, insigni miraculo declaravit. Ex vicino namque foods rivulo, quern ipse, circa horam prandii, aquam hausturus, frequentabat, pise is exiliens, sic ei se ipsum ultro commodabat, ut, absciss! in dbum particull, integrum se denuo ad idem munus quoddie depnesentaret" — Lect. Brev. L6ocu a A Breton poet says S. Malo and S. Patera us, but the dates will not agree. 8. CORENTIN. After Cahier. Dec. «a.

Dec. ta.] S. Finniatu took him to the fountain, where they found the creatine frolicking about quite uninjured. An attendant of the king tried his knife on the fish, and the wound remained unhealed till Corentin discovered what had been done, restored the fish to soundness, and bade it depart lest it should get into mischief again through the concourse of the curious who would be sure to come to the fountain on hearing of the miracle. The prose for the feast of S. Corentin in the Quimper Breviary says that it was the bishop of L^on who tried his knife on the fish, but the lesson for the festival in the L£on Breviary repudiates the charge, and lays the blame on an attendant of the king. Grallo, charmed with the miracles he had witnessed, presented the forest and the hunting-lodge of Plou-Vodiem to the saint. He had several disciples, of whom the most celebrated was S. Winwaloe, afterwards abbot of Landevenec (March 3). King Grallo raised Quimper into a bishopric, and S. Corentin was sent by him to Tours for consecration.1 The saint was at the Council of Angers in 453, and signed the decrees as Chariaton. He died probably not long after. A small fragment of bone is the only relic remaining of this saint. It is preserved at Quimper in the cathedral. In art, S. Corentin is represented with a fountain or a bucket at his side, in which is a fish.