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Guignole
was born in France in the sixth century. He lived as a hermit
on a rocky island self-inflicting austerities such as wearing
a hair shirt, eating ashes and sleeping on sand and bark. He
eventually became Abbot of Landevennee. Because of the latin
word “gignere,” which means to beget, he has long
been associated with fertility and celebrated as a phallic symbol.
A French adult-themed puppet show, popular in the middle-ages,
included a character named after him and a sexually explicit
theater company, founded in the red-light district of Paris
in the nineteenth century, calls itself le Grand Guignol. To
this day, a church in the city of Brest houses a wooden statue
of St. Guignole sporting an enormous phallus which is slowly
being whittled away by those trying to cure themselves of sexual
inadequacies. He is also known as Bennoc, Guengalaenus, Guengaloeus,
Guenole, Guingalois, Gunnolo, Gwenndo, Gweno, Ouignoualey, Valois,
Vennole, Vinguavally, Waloway, Wingaloeus, Winwalde, Winwalloc,
Winwalloe, Wonnow, Wynolatus, Wynwallow and Winwaloe. Guignole
is also invoked against infertility; His feast day is March
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