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Canna

6th-century female Welsh saint

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Feast: 25 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
600
Died
501
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Canna was a sixth-century mother of saints and later a nun in south Wales, to whom two Welsh churches are dedicated.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.

The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Connected on this site

Sources
  • Wikidata Q3404543 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Saint Canna (CC BY-SA)

Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.

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