Brewer's: Yves

(St.) (1 syl.). Patron saint of lawyers, being himself a lawyer. As he used his knowledge of the law in defending the oppressed, he is called in Brittany “the poor man's advocate.”

Advocatus, sed non latro, Res miranda populo.

Hymn to St. Yves.

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