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The foundation of the abbey of Saint-Jouin de Marnes is also often attributed to him, but it was apparently an older foundation which had been abandoned, and which in 843 the monks of Vertou occupied when they were displaced by the invasions of the
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There is a legend that he planted his pilgrim's staff in the middle of the abbey courtyard at Vertou and that it took root, growing into a
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In about 577, he withdrew into solitude in an area of wasteland on the right bank of the
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