Saint Ninnoc

[4] Brychan and Meneduc prayed, promising a tenth of all their possessions to the church if they were granted a child who could inherit.

[6] She taught new agricultural techniques to the local Breton communities, as well as encouraging tree planting so they could better support themselves.

[1] The book Les petits Bollandistes vies des saints de l'Ancien et du Nouveau gives Ninnoc's year of death as 467,[7] after a short illness.

[1] In Ireland, a Saint Ninne (of whom there is no record) is remembered on 3 June, and it has been suggested by the historian Sabine Baring-Gould that she is connected to Ninnoc's cult.

[2] Baring-Gould also refutes the idea that it was St Germanus of Auxerre who preached to Ninnoc, as repeated by Dunbar in A Dictionary of Saintly Women.

[15] The production of the Vitae in the 12th century was also a political act, which aimed to legitimise the holdings of the Sainte-Croix Abbey—in this case to assert its rights over the land around Lannennec.

[16] This use of her Vitae as a tool for legitimacy is compounded by the fact it is not placed at the start of the cartulary but is in the local property sections.

Processional banner of St Ninnoc, Ploemeur