MALO, Maclou, or Mahout, St, the son of an Englishman, and cousin to St Magloire, was educated in a monastery in Ireland, and was afterwards chosen bishop of Gui-Castel, a dignity which his humility prevented him from accepting. The people wishing to compel him, he went to Bretagne, and put himself under the direction of an anchorite called Aaron, in the neighbourhood of Aleth. Some time afterwards (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 on the 15th of November 565. From him the city of St Malo derives its name.