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Tro Breizh (Breton for "Tour of Brittany") is a Catholic pilgrimage that links the towns of the seven founding saints of Brittany. These seven saints were mostly Celtic monks from Britain from around the 5th or 6th century who brought Christianity to Armorica and founded its first bishoprics.

The Tro Breizh originated in the middle ages at a time of prosperity in Brittany when manifestations of religious belief became fervently pursued. The parish closes were one manifestation of this religious fervour and the Tro Breizh pilgrimage another.

The original tour was pursued on foot covering approximately 600 kilometres and one month was allowed to complete the journey to all seven sites, but when relaunched in 1994 by Les Chemins du Tro Breizh ("The Paths of the Tro Breizh" in French), it was decided to limit the tour to one week-long stage every year, still following the original path:

The seven towns are:-

Quimper, Saint Corentin's town, Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Saint Pol's town, Tréguier, Saint Tudwal's town, Saint-Brieuc, named after its founder Brioc, Saint Malo, similarly named for Malo,  Dol-de-Bretagne, Samson of Dol's town and Vannes, Saint Patern's town.

An old Breton legend says that those who do not complete the Tro Breizh in their lifetime will be sentenced to complete it in their afterlife, walking the length of the tour from within their coffin every seven years.

Saint Corentin was born in 375, the son of an Irish Celt who had settled in Armorique. Corentin became a priest and established a hermitage in the parish of Plomodiern. It was Gradlon who took Corentin under his wing when he came across the latter's hermitage whilst hunting. The king was made welcome and his hospitality touched Gradlon who granted him some land upon which he built a monastery and a school. Several years later Gradlon, anxious to found a bishopric in his province, and seeing Corentin as a suitable and popular candidate, arranged to send him to Martin of Tours whose jurisdiction included Brittany. Martin consecrated Corentin as a bishop and when he returned to Brittany, Gradlon gave him his castle at Kemper to convert into a church and he became the first bishop of Quimper and one of the group of seven called the "seven saints of Brittany". He died in 460.

Malo, also known as Maclovius was born in around 520, probably in Wales, and was baptized by St. Brendan. He is thought to have accompanied St Brendan on some of his voyages and spent several years in Llancarrven Abbey. After visits to the Orkney Islands and Scotland, he arrived in Brittany and placed himself under a venerable hermit named Aaron and helped with Aaron's missionary work. When Aaron died in around 543, Malo succeeded to the spiritual rule of the district, subsequently known as St. Malo, and was consecrated first Bishop of Aleth, the modern Saint-Servan. His work attracted opposition and he was driven from the St Malo area, settling in Saintes in France.

Paul Aurelian (known in Breton as Paol Aorelian or Saint Pol de Léon and in Latin as Paulinus Aurelianus) was a 6th-century Welshman who became the first bishop of the See of Léon and one of the seven founder saints of Brittany. He was a pupil of Saint Illtud at Llantwit Major and later studied on Caldey Island with Samson of Dol and Gildas. He went to Brittany, establishing monasteries in Finistère at Ouessant on the northwest coast of Brittany, at Lampaul on the island of Ushant, on the island of Batz and at Ocsimor, now the city of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, where he is said to have founded a monastery in an abandoned fort. He was consecrated bishop there under the authority of Childebert, King of the Franks.

Saint Brioc ( Brieuc in French or Brieg in Breton) died in around 502 and was also from Wales. He became the first abbot of Saint-Brieuc.

Two visits remained. The first was to Saint-Pol-de-Leon and the "Tro Breizh" was finished at Quimper. Saint-Pol-de-Leon is noted for its 13th-century cathedral on the site of the original building founded by Saint Paul Aurélian in the 6th-century. It has kept some unique architecture, such as the Notre-Dame du Kreisker Chapel, an 80 m high chapel, which is the highest in Brittany. It was also the scene of a battle during the Breton War of Succession, where the Montfortists and their English allies defeated an army led by Charles of Blois.

The cathedral at Quimper is a treasure and visits are highly recommended to the Quimper Art museum and the museum next to the cathedral, the museé départemental Breton which occupies the old Palais des Évêques de Cornouaille.