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ST HERVE - 17 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 17th of June WELCOME! SAINT HERVE  Saint Herve (Herveus) was a 6th century Welsh Saint and Singer, blind from his childhood. His father, Hyvarnion, had taken refuge in Brittany.  A TEACHER AND MINSTREL There St Herve grew up to become a teacher and minstrel. Idolised by the people, he lived to a great age, dying about the year 575.  In art he is represented as blind, and led about by a wolf.  (From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)