In about 577, he withdrew into solitude in an area of wasteland on the right bank of the Sèvre Nantaise.
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There is a legend that he planted his pilgrim's staff in the middle of the abbey courtyard at Vertou and that it took root, growing into a yew tree, which appears on the arms of the commune of Vertou.
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