Nov 082009
Also known as
- Garnat
- Garnet
- Gerardin
- Gerardine
- Gernard
- Gernardius
- Gervat
Profile
Hermit at Kenedor and Holyman Head in Scotland, where he lived in a cave. He would torches at night to warn ships away from the dangerous rocks along the shore. His cave survived into the 19th century, being a place of pilgrimage before being quarried out. Legend says that once when he needed wood to complete construction of a church, a great storm struck upriver of him, washing enough timber down river.
Born
- c.934
MLA Citation
- “Saint Gervadius”. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 November 2009. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-gervadius/>