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St Buriana

6th-century Irish saint who missionized in Cornwall

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 1 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

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

Who they were

Buriana, also known as Berriona, Beriana, Bruinseach, Buryan, Beryan, or Berion was a 6th-century Irish saint, a hermit in St Buryan, near Penzance, Cornwall. Baring-Gould identifies her with the Irish saint Bruinsech.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q4099574 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Buriana (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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