St. Convoyon
Feastday: January 5
868
Benedictine abbot exiled by Norseman in Brittany, France. A Breton, Convoyon was an archdeacon of Vannes and then a hermit. He became a Benedictine monk and then abbot-founder of St. Savior Monastery near Redon in 831. Norseman attacked and drove him from the abbey. He was canonized in 1866.
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