Saint Ninnoc
St Ninnoc was reputedly born in Wales and died in Brittany. She founded a religious house and became its abbess. Abused women found shelter at Lanennoc and she became known as a protector. Miracles were attributed to her during her lifetime.
About Saint Ninnoc in brief
St Ninnoc was reputedly born in Wales and died in Brittany. She founded a religious house and became its abbess. She taught new agricultural techniques to the local Breton communities. Abused women found shelter at Lanennoc and she became known as a protector of women. Miracles were attributed to her during her lifetime and, according to her Vitae, she was canonised a few years after her death. The book Les petits Bollandistes vies des saints de l’Ancien et du Nouveau gives her year of death as 467, reportedly after a short illness.
Her feast day of 4 June has become her reported date of death. It has been proposed that her double-house at Lannénec was destroyed by Vikings in the ninth or tenth century. There are accounts of the veneration of St NinnOC in the seventh and eighth centuries in England. In Ireland, a Saint Ninne is remembered on 3 June, and it has been suggested by the historian Sabine Baring-Gould that she is connected to her cult.
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