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Gulstà de Rhuys

British monk

SaintResearchedUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandBenedictinesPre-congregation

Feast: 27 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
950
Died
1040
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

At Beauvoir-sur-Mer on the French coast in the territory of Nantes in Brittany, Saint Gulstan, monk, who, having escaped as a young man from the hands of pirates and been taken in by Saint Felix, then a hermit, shone in the monastery of Rhuys where, though illiterate, he recited the psalter by heart and cared for seafarers.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 27 November as an illiterate monk of Rhuys who knew the psalter by heart and cared for seafarers.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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