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This article is about the 6th century Irish Hermit. For for the 16th century French composer sometimes known as Abran, see Ebran.

Saint Abran
Hometown	Brittany
Feast	8 May

Saint Abran (Breton for 'Abraham'), was a 6th-century Irish hermit in Brittany.

Life

Abran was born in Ireland and was a brother of Gibrian. Abran and Gibrain traveled to Brittany with their siblings. The five brothers and three sisters chose a life of devotion to God in consecrated religious life. Abran lived in a hermitage on the Marne River, which had been given to him by Saint Remigius.

Abran and his siblings are all considered saints for their positive Christian influence upon the Breton people.

Saint Abran's feast day is 8 May on the Western Rite Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church calendars.

See also

• Christian monasticism
• Desert Fathers
• Julien Maunoir, apostle of Brittany

Sources

• Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome

Further reading

Sigal, Pierre-André (1969). "Maladie, pèlerinage et guérison au XII^e siècle: Les miracles de saint Gibrien à Reims". Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 24 (6): 1522–39. doi:10.3406/ahess.1969.422186. S2CID 161904401.