Saint Ivo of Kermartin
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- Also known as
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Advocate of the Poor
Ives
Ivo Helory
Ivo of Helory
Ivo
Yves
Yvo
Yvo of Kermartin
- Memorial
- 19 May
- Profile
- Born to a wealthy Breton noble family.
From age 14 he studied civil and canon lawyer, philosophy, and theology in Paris and Orleans.
Franciscan tertiary.
Lawyer who practised in both civil and ecclesiastical courts, often defending the poor without charge, and ministering to them in prison while they awaited trial.
Practiced great personal ascetism, with frequest fasts, and wearing a hair shirt under his clothing.
Fought the state over taxes and the rights of the Church.
Incorruptible diocesan judge, refusing the bribes that were the order of the day, and working to settle claims out of court in order to save the litigants time and money.
Ordained in 1284.
Resigned his legal position in 1287 to tend to his parishioners at Tredez and Lovannec.
Noted preacher and arbitor, he built a hospital from his own funds, tended the poor in it, and gave away the harvests from his land to feed them.
Miracle worker, feeding hundreds from a single loaf of bread.
- Born
- 17 October 1253 at Kermartin near Treguier, Brittany
- Died
- 19 May 1303 at Louannec, Brittany of natural causes following a sermon on Ascension Eve
- Canonized
- June 1347 by Pope Clement VI
- Patronage
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abandoned people
advocates
attorneys
bailiffs
barristers
Brittany
canon lawyers
canonists
judges
jurists
lawyers
notaries
orphans
- Representation
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lawyer enthroned between rich and poor litigants
lawyer holding a book, with an angel near his head and a lion at his feet
lawyer surrounded by suppliants, holding a parchment and pointing upwards
lawyer surrounded by symbols of the Holy Spirit such as doves
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by A A MacErlean
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
The Golden Legend
Google Directory
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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- Readings
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Sanctus Ivo erat Brito,
Advocatus, et non latro
Res miranda populo.
Saint Yvo was a Breton and a lawyer,
But not dishonest -
An astonishing thing in people's eyes.
- from a 14th century description of Saint Ivo