Saint Gervadius

Also known as

• Garnat
• Garnet
• Gerardin
• Gerardine
• Gernard
• Gernardius
• Gervat

Memorial

• 8 November

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

• Irish

Died

• c.934

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

MLA Citation

• “Saint Gervadius”. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 November 2009. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-gervadius/>