ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 12th of December WELCOME! SAINT CORENTIN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR (First Bishop of Quimper, in Brittany) Saint Corentin was son of a British nobleman, and being educated in the fear of God, retired young into a forest in the parish of Ploe-Madiern, where he passed several years in holy solitude, and in the practice of great austerities. Marcellus, who subscribed the first council of Tours, and the several other bishops who came over with the Britons into Armorica, had continued to govern their flocks without any correspondence with the French, being strangers to their language and manners. ST CORENTIN WAS APPOINTED BISHOP OF QUIMPER These being all dead, it was necessary to procure a new succession of pastors. St Corentin was appointed bishop of Quimper or Quimmer, which, in the British language, signified a conflux of rivers, such being the situation of this place near the sea coast. The cities of Re...