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Saint Gildas de Rhuys

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Morbihan

Canton
  
Sarzeau

Area
  
15.28 km²

Region
  
Brittany

Arrondissement
  
Vannes

Intercommunality
  
Presqu'île de Rhuys

Local time
  
Tuesday 8:32 PM

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Weather
  
12°C, Wind S at 13 km/h, 81% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Abbaye de Rhuys, Plage de Kerver, Pointe Du Grand Mont, Musée des Arts - Métiers et

Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Breton: Lokentaz) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.

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Map of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, France

Its French name refers to Saint Gildas, who founded the abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Ruys on the Rhuys Peninsula in the 6th century. From 920 to 1008, the Norman raids forced the monks to bring the relics of the saint to the abbey of Saint-Gildas of Châteauroux that they founded under the protection of the prince Ebbes of Déols.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys are called in French Gildasiens.

Burials

  • Saint Gildas (d.570)
  • Saint Felix of Rhuys (d.1038)
  • Saint Goustan (also called Saint Gulstan, d.1040)
  • Alienor de Bretagne, daughter of John I, Duke of Brittany (d.1249)
  • Jeanne de Bretagne, daughter of John IV, Duke of Brittany (d.1388)

    • References

    Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys Wikipedia
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