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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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June 6 · Bishop

St. Gurwall

St. Gurwall

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

June 6
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

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Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 6 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated in the diocese of S. Malo. Galilean Martyrologies. Authority: — Life in the Lessons of the S. Malo Breviary.] S. Gurwall was bom in Britain, and is said — but this is questionable — to have been for some time a disciple of S. Brendan in Ireland,1 and to have succeeded him as abbot Thence he went into Brittany, and became known to S. Malo, bishop of Aleth, who designated him as his successor. But, after holding the see a year and a few months, he wearied of his charge, and having appointed Colfineth, his archdeacon, to succeed him, retired with some of his clergy to the monastery of Gum, which he had built; but not finding there the solitude he desired, he spent the rest of his days in a cavern above the sea. 1 S. Brendan of Clonfort died a.d. 599 j that Gurwall succeeded him is impossible, as he succeeded S. Malo in 165.

Feast days

Feast: June 6

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Gurwall's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.