ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 6th of March WELCOME! SAINT JUDICAËL I., KING Saint Judicaël (Judicaël I. Rex), also called Judaellus, Judhael, Gilquellus, and in French Juel , Giguel, Guquel or Guiguel , was king of Brittany ( Armorica or Britannia minor). According to Pierer* (XV. 330), he was the elder son of Hoël III , Earl of Cornwallis, but gave the throne of Brittany to his younger brother Solomon and became a monk in 612. When his brother died without heirs, he once more took over the government (in 632), but returned to the monastery in 638 and died there in 658. According to Bucelin *, however, he had 20 children, 16 sons and 4 daughters, by his godly wife Britela, all of whom distinguished themselves in virtue and piety. Probably Saint Euriela is a daughter of his. Tired of government, he abdicated the throne in favour of his eldest son of the same name (Judicaël), and became a Benedictine at the monastery of Saint Maianus or Mainus (Saint ...