Testimony of the canonization process

Jean de Kerc’hoz is an important person in Saint Yves’ life

Jean de Kerc’hoz is an important person in Saint Yves’ life

He is around seven years older and Yves’ parents entrusted him with his instruction. At more than ninety years old, he will be the first witness in the canonization acts. He always lived in his Manor of Kerc’hoz in the parish of Pleubian, except when during the years when he went with him for studying in Paris and Orléans. He has known him since his childhood, then, as well as his parents for he attended their wedding too. He says something very important during the trial of canonization about...

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Jean de Kerc’hoz attests Saint Yves simple style of life

Jean de Kerc’hoz attests Saint Yves simple style of life

« Lord Yves was a very humble and good man. I watched that in all his habits, I mean his way of talking, cheering, walking, praying, acting with everyone, most of all with the poor: he showed always a great humility. He wore an humble and cheap vesture too (…) and during his twelve last years, he used high shoes with laces, similar to the Cistercians’ ones....

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Jean de Kerc’hoz: “Yves was a serious and righteous young man”

Jean de Kerc’hoz: “Yves was a serious and righteous young man”

“ I have known him since his childhood. I stayed with him in Orléans and Tréguier and in other places. In the same bedroom, same places, same schools. I taught Lord Yves his humanities, and, sometimes, grammar and civil law, in the places I said. He acted righteously and was a very hardworking student. I do believe that Lord Yves was a chaste man for I lived with him since his childhood and I never perceived anything against this virtue, neither words, nor attitudes. Though I looked...

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