Dadon

Site of Grand-Vabre

Dadon's gravestone

Dadon's chapel

Dadon on Conques tympanum

After the Conques foundation, Dadon, faithful to his vow for a solitary life, settled in Grand-Vabre to continue his hermit life

Translation of the gravestone:

here
(according to constant tradition)
in the ground of this chapel
and
of these built before it
was buried near
755-760
DADON
hermit
founder of the monastery
of
Conques
and first abbot

canonized by the popular voice

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