Saint Gobain

Church of Saint-Gobain, Aisne

Saint Gobain (died 670), also known as Goban, was an Irish monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England.

Born in Ireland, he was a brother of Saint Wasnon, (to whom a church is dedicated in Condé-sur-l'Escaut). Gobain accompanied Fursey to France. Some accounts have him staying at the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Picardy,^[1] or the abbey of Corbény in Champagne,^[2] before settling in a hermitage in the forest of Voas, near the present Saint-Gobain. There he brought forth a spring by thrusting his pilgrim's staff into the ground.

In 670, Gobain was beheaded by marauders, and buried in his oratory, which became a place of pilgrimage. His feast day is observed on 20 June.

References

1. Wyard O.S.B., Robert. Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Vincent de Laon p. 83, (1858)
2. Rabenstein, Katherine I., "Goban (Gobain, Govan)", Saints of the Day, St. Patrick's church, Washington, D.C.

External links

• Gobán 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England