ON ST. MIOCUS, HERMIT IN ARMORICAN BRITTANY,
IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. Commentary
Miocus, hermit, in Armorican Brittany. (S.)
C. D. S.
Of St. Miocus Lobineau relates these few things Vies des Saints de Bretagne, ed. Tresvaux, vol. I, p. 257., for the credibility of which let him be answerable. St. Miocus * led a solitary life in the parish that today is named after him Coet-Mieu: which place was then rough with forests: for Coet-Mieu means the same as Wood of Miocus. That parish was subject to the see of Dol, yet situated within the bounds of the diocese of Saint-Brieuc. In the church of this place, when in the seventeenth century they were leveling the high altar, which was not joined to the wall, there appeared a chest inscribed with these words: Relics of St. Miocus. Hector d'Ouvrier, who at that time held the episcopal see of Dol, and John Collas, rector of the parish, raised those relics from the earth and placed them in a more decent place. And two other parishes also are distinguished with the name of St. Miocus: one in the diocese of Saint-Brieuc, Plu-Mieu; the other in that of Quimper, Ploez-Miec. Among the Proper Offices of the church of Dol, printed in the year 1770, there is found a lesson on St. Miocus with his commemoration marked at the 2nd day of November. So far Lobineau, who also ties the age of St. Miocus to the sixth century. It has not been possible to find more about this saint.
Annotations* in French Mieu