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and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at

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. Born in

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, he was a brother of

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). Gobain accompanied Fursey to

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. Some accounts have him staying at the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Picardy, or the abbey of Corbény in Champagne,Rabenstein, Katherine I., "Goban (Gobain, Govan)", Saints of the Day, St. Patrick's church, Washington, D.C.
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. There he brought forth a spring by thrusting his pilgrim's staff into the ground. In 670, Gobain was beheaded by marauders, and buried in his oratory, which became a place of pilgrimage. His feast day is observed on 20 June.

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* 7th-century births 670 deaths 7th-century Frankish saints East Anglian saints Medieval Irish saints Colombanian saints 7th-century Irish people Irish expatriates in England Irish Benedictines {{france-saint-stub