 The "vita" acknowledges that there is no written documentation or oral tradition on the reign of Goulven as a bishop, and is mostly concerned with the places associated with the saint--the spring (or fountain, "fons Golvini") and the hermitage (his "peniti", or cell, with the "menihi", or surrounding land).The "vita" explains that his body was at Rennes, though a hand was brought to Léon; in the absence of relics, the cult of the saint was built on a number of objects associated with him