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Saint Endelienta

Cornish saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 29 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
500
Died
501
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Endelient (also Endelienta, Edellienta or Endellion) was a Cornish saint of the 5th and 6th century. She is believed to be a daughter of the Welsh King Brychan, and a native of South Wales who travelled to North Cornwall to join her siblings in converting the locals to Christianity. Legend says that she was a goddaughter of King Arthur, and that she lived as a hermit at Trentinney where she subsisted on the milk of a cow. The saint is commemorated in the church and village of St Endellion which bear her name; Endellion being an Anglicised version of her name. Her feast day is 29 April.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Connected on this site

Sources
  • Wikidata Q936150 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Endelient (CC BY-SA)

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