Buhez sant Gwenole
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Buhez sante Barba
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Buhez santez Nonn
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Middle Breton play about Non, mother of St Dewi (David) of Wales, and her son.
Cartulary of Landévennec
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A cartulary of the monastery of Landévennec. It largely consists of records purporting to document gifts of land, property and privileges to Gwenolé (Winwaloe), founder and patron saint of the monastery, many of them from Gradlon, the legendary king in Brittany.

De sancto Iudicaelo rege historia
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Ingomar
Ingomar
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Latin Life of Iudic-hael
Sermunculus de vita sancti Winwaloei
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Short, homiletic redaction of the vita of St Winwaloe, in 17 lectiones. BHL 8962.

Vies des saints de la Bretagne Armorique (Albert Le Grand)
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Le Grand (Albert)
Le Grand (Albert)
(1599(?)–1640x1644)
Breton Dominican friar and hagiographer, author of Les vies des saints de la Bretagne Armorique (Nantes, 1637).

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Printed collection of the lives of Breton saints, written in French by the Dominican Albert Le Grand (1599-1641). The work was first printed in 1636/1637, with new editions appearing after his death in 1659 and 1680.
Vita abbreviata sancti Winwaloei
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An abbreviated version of Wrdisten’s Life of St Winwaloe, in 21 lectiones, produced perhaps in northern France. BHL 8961.

Vita brevior sancti Winwaloei
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Shorter version of the Latin Life of Winwaloeus (Gwenolé), abridged from the longer version written by Wrdisten. BHL suppl. 8956d. In addition to being generally shorter, it also adds to it by borrowing an episode from the vita of St Ethbin, in which Christ appears to Gwenolé and Ethbin as a leper.

Vita compendiosa sancti Winwaloei
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Bernard (Jacques) [d. 1652]
Bernard (Jacques) ... d. 1652
(1589–1652)
Jesuit hagiographer.

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A short redaction of Wrdisten’s vita of St Winwaloe from Quimper MS 16, created by the Jesuit Jacques Bernard (d. 1652) for inclusion in the Acta sanctorum (Martius I). BHL 8964.

Vita et homelia sancti Winwaloei (Wrdisten)
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Wrdisten
Wrdisten (Gurdisten)
(fl. 9th century)
Abbot of Landévennec and author of a Life of St Winwaloe/Gwenolé.

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A letter written probably by Wrdisten, abbot of Landévennec and author of the vita longior of Winwaloe, to John, bishop of Arezzo. The letter was intended to accompany a gift of relics sent to the bishop and offers a summary of Winwaloe’s life by the same author. BHL 8960.

Vita I sancti Samsonis
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First extant Latin Life of St Samson, bishop of Dol. BHL 7478-7479.

Vita interpolata sancti Winwaloei
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A short redaction of the vita of St Winwaloe, based on an abridged, homiletic redaction (BHL 8962, called Sermunculus de vita s. Winwaloei by J.-C. Poulin). BHL 8953. A distinct feature of the present version is that it also borrows an episode relating to St Ethbin from the Vita brevior, with a unique conclusion in which both saints travel to Ireland.

Vita longior sancti Machutis (anonymous)
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A redaction of the life of the Btreton saint Malo (Machutus) of Alet. BHL 5118 (a-b).

Vita sancti Briomagli
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Life of St Brioc (Briomaglus). BHL 1463.

Vita sancti Conuuoionis
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Life of St Conwoion, who in 832 founded Saint-Sauveur de Redon. The text consists of a prologue and 11 chapters. BHL 1946. 

Vita sancti Cunuali
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Latin Life of St Cunwal (Lat. Cunualus), bishop of Tréguier, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century. BHL 2018b.
Vita sancti Ethbini
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Short, anonymous vita of St Ethbin, al. Idiunet/Idunet (in the Quimper MS), a fellow monk of Winwaloe. BHL 2621.

Vita sancti Euflami
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Latin Life of St Efflam. BHL 2665. 

Vita sancti Goeznovei
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William the BretonWilliam the Breton
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BHL 3608-3609.

Vita sancti Gurthierni
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GurhedenGurheden
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A Breton Latin Life of St Gurthiern. He is said to have been a Welsh prince, who after inadvertently killing his sister's son, became a hermit, at first in Britain and finally, in Brittany, where he was granted Anaurot, i.e. Quimperlé, and founded its original church. The text is transmitted in the Cartulary of Quimperlé and consists there of three parts: a genealogical section, the Life proper and the story of posthumous miracles attributed to relics of the saint. BHL 3720-3722.

Vita sancti Machutis I (Bili)
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Bili
Bili
(fl. 9th century)
Deacon of Aleth and author of the first extant Life of St Malo (Machutus), bishop of Aleth.

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Vita sancti Mevenni
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Latin life of St Mevenn, which is uniquely preserved in a 16th-century mortuary register of the community of Saint-Méen. BHL 5944.
Vita sancti Pauli Aureliani (Wrmonoc)
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WrmonocWrmonoc
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WrmonocWrmonoc
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The first vita of St Paul Aurelian, written by Gurmonoc / Wrmonoc and dated by himself to 884.