Buriana

Saint Buriana
Born 6th century
Ireland
Died 6th century
Cornwall
Venerated in Anglican Church, Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrine St Buryan's Church, Cornwall
Feast May 1

Saint Buriana (or Berriona, Beriana or Beryan)[1] was a 6th-century Irish saint, a hermit in St Buryan, near Penzance, Cornwall. Baring-Gould identifies her with the Irish Saint Bruinsech.

She is said to have been the daughter of an Irish king and travelled to Cornwall from Ireland as a missionary to convert the local people to Christianity. According to the Exeter Calendar of Martyrology Buriana was the daughter of a Munster chieftain.[2] One legend tells how she cured the paralysed son of King Geraint of Dumnonia. Buriana ministered from a chapel on the site of the parish church at St Buryan.

Buriana's feast day is 1 May.

References

  1. Ellis (1992), p. 6
  2. Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, p. 6


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