Visit to Saint Herbot

Saint Herbot is a lovely little village just a few kilometres south of Huelgoat. Our friend Judith lives there and when we went to visit her she took us round the fine church.

 

On the way in, the carvings of the 12 apostles look down on you, six on each side

 

The church is very impressive although the village is small!

 

 

Saint Herbot was an immigrant from Britain. He settled in Berrien (Finistere) but the local women drove him away as they didn't like their husbands listening to his preaching. He moved to the south of the Monts d'Arrée and eventually found a lord of the manor who let him choose two beasts from his herd to help him transport materials to build a hermitage. The oxen worked very hard yet became wonderfully strong and healthy whilst toiling for Herbot. They were never to be found far from his side after that and they even remained near the hermitage after he died.  Herbot loved animals, it was said that he could converse with them and heal them, and according to the legend, this holy man asked to become the patron saint of cows and oxen when he got to heaven