Magloire

Magloire, better known as Saint Magloire of Dol, is a Breton saint, one of a number attributed an origin the other side of the English Channel. Magloire was a Welsh monk who became Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany, and ended his life on the island of Sark. He is traditionally given to be a relative of Samson of Dol, and his successor as bishop of Dol at the end of the seventh century. At the command of an angel, according to his hagiography, he gave up this position to Budoc, and retired to the island of Sark. Contemporary opinion is that he was an Irish abbot, who died c. 575.