Is there a St Elouan

[litt1907]

Hi I happened across the name St Elouan on the internet apparently he’s some sort of old French saint who was popular in Cornwall,England a long time ago. But that’s all the information I can find about him! Is he a real saint if so does anyone know where I can find his story??

 

[Greenfields]

Well, looking on the internet says he was born in Ireland and has different spelling as well ,Elwen .
I’ve not heard of him before I don’t think.

 

[Mary888]

Maybe you can use google translate for this page:

Saint Elouan — Wikipédia

He is a VI century saint born in Ireland and deceased in 622 in Armorique (the land between the Seine and Loire), his feast is on August 28th. He evangelized the pagans that lived there and was the disciple of Tugdual de Treguier.
His cult now exists in the chapel of the town of Saint-Guen, Bretagne.
His name is celtic.meaning good light: “lou” - light and “eu” - good.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Here he is in a book, which says he was originally from Ireland and became a hermit.
There is a saint in Cornwall called St. Elwen or Elwyn and some think they are same person as Elouan, other sources, disagree.

The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such ... - Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher - Google Books

 

[Symphorian]

I live in Cornwall where we have a St Elwen or St Elwyn. He may be the same as St Elouen of Brittany but we can’t be certain. It was common however for Celtic missionaries to travel between Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. In Cornwall, we share several Saints in common with Brittany.

Elwen appears in John Leland’s extracts from a lost late-medieval Life of Saint Breage included in his Itinerary. Leland’s extracts name Elwen as one of Saint Breage’s seven Irish companions who join her on her mission to Cornwall, the others being Sithney, Germoe, Mavuanus (perhaps Mawnan), Crowan, Helena, and Tecla. The text also refers to a Life of St Elwinus, evidently a lost hagiography of Elwin. A few medieval and early modern Cornish sources mention Elwen and his chapel at Sithney, but little else is known of him here.

There is a Church of England church built in the late Victorian era dedicated to St Elwyn at Hayle in West Cornwall.

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