Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated in Brittany at N. D. de Folgoat. He died on Nov. 1. The feast of the Foundation of Follcoat is celebrated on March 8. Authority: — A Life by Jean de Langoueznou, Benedictine monk, abbot of Landevenec, a contemporary. The original existed in 1562, when the Bishop of L&n, R. de Neufville, gave it to Rene Benoist and Pascal Robin, who translated it into French and added portions of their own relating the later history of Follcoat, which is historically incorrect. How far they amplified the original cannot be told, as that original is now lost Their paraphrase is given by Albert le Grand.] Salaun, or Solomon, was a poor idiot, who begged his livelihood from door to door, in the neighbourhood of Lesneven in Brittany. He had been sent to school, but had learned nothing there but reverence for the Blessed Virgin. The poor fool used to knock at doors, and cry, “ O itroun guerhez Vari ! Salaun a deppre bara ! ” (O Lady Virgin Mary ! Solomon would have some bread to eat !) He heard Mass every day at Lesneven. If he met anyone in the roads, he pleaded for alms with his invariable cry, “ O itroun guerhez Vari !” He slept up in a tree. When cold he swung himself from one of the branches, uttering his wonted call. Once some soldiers fell on him during the contests between Charles of Blois and the Count of Montfort, and asked him to which side he belonged. “ Neither to Blois nor to Montfort, but to Mary,” he replied. Being regarded as an idiot, he was called Ar foil, or the fool; and the little wood in which he sheltered, Ar foil goat (the Fool’s Wood). He died about 1358, on All Saints’ Day, and was buried in the churchyard of Guic-Elleaw. But a pure white lily grew out of his grave. Popular tradition adds that the petals were inscribed with his appeal, “ O itroun guerhez Vari 1 ” It remained in flower six weeks. The people of the neighbourhood thought this was Not. i.) S. Salaun.