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Winwaloe (Breton: Gwenole; French: Guénolé; Latin: Winwallus or Winwalœus; c. 460 – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally "Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe.
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"Winwaloe" published on by null. (6th century),Breton abbot. Trained by Budoc on an island called ‘Laurea’, he became a hermit on the island of Tibidy, off the Breton coast, and practised the usual Celtic mortifications of reciting the psalter daily with arms outstretched and wearing clothes of goat-hair.
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WINWALOE, ST. Abbot, confessor; Latin: Guengualoeus, in France called Gu é nol é; b. c. 461; d. March 3, c. 532. Winwaloe's father, Fracan, a British chieftain, migrated with his family to Armorica (Brittany), where Winwaloe was born.
St. Winwaloe was sensible that the spirit of prayer, is the soul of a religious state and the comfort and support of all those who are engaged in it: as to himself, his prayer, either mental or vocal, was almost continual, and so fervent, that he seemed to forget that he lived in a mortal body.
