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After a while Goneri moved into Domnonia, to the 

 neighbourhood of Treguier, and placed himself under S. Tugdual 

 at Plougrescant. There he died. 



In 1514, the Bishop of Treguier ordered that his commem- 

 oration should take place on the fii'st Tuesday in April. The 

 people of Treguier keep the feast on April 7. 



His name has been changed in Latin to S. Yeneridus. 



The name of Guron occurs in the Liber Llandavensis. It 

 may be a mere coincidence that Goneri and, Guron are 

 commemorated on the same day. The Breton name cannot, as it 

 stands, be deduced from any Celtic root. It has come to us 

 much altered. 



A very curious Pagan myth has attached itself to S. Goneri. 

 One day he was attacked by robbers who made a fire, threw him 

 into it and left him to be consumed. Some hours after, a holy 

 beggar passed and saw a heap of cinders with a fresh ripe apple 

 on top of it. This he took, and coming after a while to a cottage, 

 he gave the apple to a young virgin. She ate it, and became a 

 mother and when the child was born, with a loud voice it 

 proclaimed " I am the Goneri who was and Goneri I am again."* 



The story is found in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, it is 

 found in the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiches, it is 

 found in the Finnish Kalewipoeg, and is in fact a reincarnation 

 myth common to many pagan beliefs in divers parts of the 

 world. 



S. GuYER or GuiEE, Hermit, Confessor. 



When S. Neot came to the place now called after him, he 

 found a cell that had been occupied previously by a venerable 

 hermit, named Guier, and he took up his residence in it. 



Nothing is known about him. 



His feast is on April 7, the same day as that of S. Guron, 

 which makes us suspect that they may have been one and the 

 same person. 



A chapel was dedicated to him at S. Neot. 



* Le Braz : in Annales de Bretague, T. XI., pp. 173-7. 



