Pergat

Saint Pergat or Pergad or Pergobat or Bergat was a sixth-century Brenton bishop contemporary with Saint Ruelin. He is regarded as a saint in local Brenton calendars: His feast day August 3rd.[1]

Biography

Pergat was born into a noble and wealthy family around 548. He was a student of the Breton monk Tugdual who established a hermitage on an island off the coast of North Wales. Pergat accompanied Tugdual when the latter returned to Brittany, probably settling at Yaudet near Lannion.[2]

A good speaker, Pergat became Canon and Archdeacon of Tréguier. On the death of Tugdual, he contested the election of bishop Ruelin and, supported by a part of the people and clergy, was also elected. To settle this schism, a synod was summoned to Lexobia, marked by an apparition of Tugdual, who threatened Pergat with a terrible and rapid punishment if he did not withdraw. Pergat knelt down, begged pardon, and retired to Pouldouran, of which he is still the patron saint and where a fountain bearing his name exists. He ended his days by doing penitence as a hermit at Ty-Bergat. He died around 620.[3]

The Saint-Bergat church in Pouldouran was built between 1859 and 1867.[4]


References
  1. "Calendrier des saints bretons" (PDF). Diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et Tréguier.
  2. Le Grand, Albert. Vie des saints de la Bretagne Armorique, 1636, réédition 1901, Quimper
  3. M. de Garaby. Vies des bienheureux et des saints de Bretagne (1839) - Saint-Brieuc
  4. "Saint Bergat, Diacre et chanoine de Tréguier (+ v. 620)", Nominis

Sources
  • Albert Le Grand, "Vie des saints de la Bretagne Armorique", 1636, réédition 1901, Quimper,
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