Saint Goar of Aquitaine

Memorial

• 6 July

Profile

Priest. In 519, to serve God anonymously, he migrated to the area around Trier, Germany, and became a hermit in a cell at Oberwesel on the Rhein. Well known for sanctity, prophecies, and miracles. Refused the archbishopric of Trier. Charlemagne built a stately church over Goar’s hermitage, around which the town of Saint Guvet grew on the left bank of the Rhine between Wesel and Boppard.

Born

• in Aquitaine (part of modern France)

Died

• c.575

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• hotel keepers
• innkeepers
• potters
• vine growers

Representation

• hermit being given milk by hinds
• hermit with the devil on his shoulder
• hermit with the devil under his feet
• hermit with three hinds near him
• man hanging his hat on a sunbeam
• man holding a pitcher
• man holding the church of Saint Goar am Rhein

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Goar of Aquitaine”. Saints.SQPN.com. 5 July 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-goar-of-aquitaine/>