Career
He is sometimes known as the Apostle of the Herbauges. In about 577, he withdrew into solitude in an area of wasteland on the right bank of the Sèvre Nantaise. Gradually, as people were drawn to him by his sanctity, he built a church and enlarged his hermitage, which became Vertou Abbey.
He also founded other religious communities, including Durieu Abbey, where he died in 601.
There is a legend that he planted his pilgrim"s staff in the middle of the abbey courtyard at Vertou and that it took root, growing into a yew tree, which appears on the arms of the commune of Vertou. His feast day is 24 October.
