MALO, MAGLOU, or Mahou, SAINT, the son of an Englishman, and cousin to St Magloire, was educated in a monastery in Ireland, and afterwards chosen bishop of Gui-Cassel, a dignity which his humility prevented him from accepting. The people wishing to compel him, he went to Brittany, and put himself under the direction of a holy anchorite called Aaron, in the neighbourhood of Aleth. Some time after, about the year 541, he was chosen bishop of that city, and there cultivated piety and religion with great success. He afterwards retired to a solitude near Xaintes, where he died November 15, 565. From him the city of St Malo derives its name; his body having been carried thither, after the reduction of Aleth to a small village called Guidalet or Guichalet, and the transference of the episcopal see to St Malo.