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One of the most well-known and detailed stories about
Magloire concerns his rescue of a group of children. The children were playing in an abandoned wreck on the beach below the monastery when a sudden violent storm swept them out to sea. Magloire is said to have swum out to sea when he heard their
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to St. Magloire, and claims that he acquired large swaths of land as a result of these miracles. It argues that Count
Loisescon, whose illness was miraculously cured by Magloire, gave him a sixth of all his wealth. It also argues that Nivo, the owner of
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and were found in 1835, during the installation of a new high altar. St
Magloire is one of the four saints surrounding the image of Christon the Pulpit of the Town Church in Guernsey, the others being St Martin, St Peter and St Samson of Dol.
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saint. Little reliable information is known of
Magloire as the earliest written sources appeared three centuries after his death. These sources claim that he was a monk from Wales who became the Bishop of
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and killed the monks. When seven of the
Vikings attempted to open St. Magloire's tomb, they were blinded, and many of the others turned and began to kill each other.
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and destroyed a dragon, that he resurrected a drowned fisherman of Sark, and that he led the islanders to fight off an anachronistic fleet of
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with his cousin Samson, who became the archbishop of Dol. After Samson's death, Magloire succeeded him as his chosen successor to the
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monks to Paris in the 10th century, and is the primary source for the foundation of their monastery in Paris. The
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presents a narrative of his life. According to the text, Magloire was born in the early 6th century to
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Posthumous miracles of St. Magloire are also included in the surviving texts. After his death,
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cries and saved them and their boat, steering it to the safety of the shore before vanishing.
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raiders). A legend is also told that
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of Lehon Abbey. He was revered by the monks as their primary
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granted them land to establish a new monastery. In 1572,
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