Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys
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Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Inhabitants of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys are called in French Gildasiens.
Saint Gildas church
Gildas
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Gildas – also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw and Gildas Sapiens – was a 6th-century British monk best known for his religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the
Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys
…Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Inhabitants of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys are called in French Gildasiens. Its French name refers to Saint Gildas, who founded the abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys on the Rhuys Peninsula in the 6th century. From 920 to 1008, the Norman raids forced the monks to bring…
Statue of Saint Gildas near the village of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Brittany).
The spring of St Gildas in Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan