Saint Turiaf of Dol (or Thivisiau, Tuien, Turiav, Turiave, Turiavus, Turien, Turiano, Turiavo; died ) was a Breton abbot and bishop of the
ancient Diocese of Dol
The Breton and French Catholic diocese of Dol existed from 848 to the French Revolution. It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801. Its see was Dol Cathedral. Its scattered territory (deriving from the holdings of the Celtic monastery, and inclu ...
.
Life
Turiaf was born in
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
to French nobility in the 8th century.
He became a monk, abbot and priest.
Saint Sampson ordained him.
He was appointed Bishop of
Dol in Brittany, France.
His feast day is 13 July.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monks of
St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
St Augustine's Abbey or Ramsgate Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Ramsgate. It was built in 1860 by Augustus Pugin and is a Grade II listed building. It was the first Benedictine monastery to be built in England since the Reformation. In ...
wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921),
Butler's account
The hagiographer
Alban Butler
Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer.
Biography
Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died when ...
(1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'',
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Medieval Breton saints
750 deaths