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 light 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 to finish the work.

Born

• Irish

Died

• c.934

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Gervadius“. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 May 2013. Web. 20 May 2013. <>