Ivo of Kermartin

(St. Yves) St. Ives, born at Kermartin, near Tréguier, Brittany, 17 October, 1253;

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According to Catholic tradition, as recorded in the sources cited for each patronage:

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He is the patron of lawyers, though not, it is said, their model, for - "Sanctus Ivo erat Brito, Advocatus et non latro, Res miranda populo."

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Recorded as patron of Nantes (university) in:

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by his charity he gained the title of advocate and patron of the poor.

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died at Louannee, 19 May, 1303, was the son of Helori, lord of Kermartin, and Azo du Kenquis.

In 1267 Ives was sent to the University of Paris, where he graduated in civil law.

He went to Orléans in 1277 to study canon law.

On his return to Brittany having received minor orders he was appointed "official", or ecclesiastical judge, of the archdeanery of Rennes (1280);

meanwhile he studied Scripture, and there are strong reasons for holding that he joined the Franciscan Tertiaries sometime later at Guingamp.

He was soon invited by the Bishop of Tréguier to become his "official", and accepted the offer (1284).