Saint Gobain

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| other_names = Goban

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| nationality = Irish

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| birth_place = Ireland

| death_date = 670

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| resting_place = buried in his oratory

| location = Burgh Castle Norfolk, England and France

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| death_cause = marauders (brother)

| relatives = brother of Saint Wasnon

| disciple_of = Saint Fursey

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File:Église Saint-Gobain de Saint-Gobain (DxO copie).jpg

Saint Gobain (died 670), also known as Goban, was an Irish monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England.

Born in Ireland, he was a brother of Saint Wasnon, (to whom a church is dedicated in Condé-sur-l'Escaut). Gobain accompanied Fursey to France. Some accounts have him staying at the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Picardy,[https://books.google.com/books?id=6BwpEWvFMJwC&pg=PA83 Wyard O.S.B., Robert. Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Vincent de Laon] p. 83, (1858) or the abbey of Corbény in Champagne,[http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0620.shtml Rabenstein, Katherine I., "Goban (Gobain, Govan)", Saints of the Day, St. Patrick's church, Washington, D.C.] before settling in a hermitage in the forest of Voas, near the present Saint-Gobain. There he brought forth a spring by thrusting his pilgrim's staff into the ground.

In 670, Gobain was beheaded by marauders, and buried in his oratory, which became a place of pilgrimage. His feast day is observed on 20 June.