St Buriana
Sign in to saveAlso known as Buriana, Saint Buriana, Buryan, Saint Buryan, St Buryan, Burien, Saint Burien, St Burien
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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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Ireland
- Place of death
- Cornwall
- Occupation
- missionary
- Image
- Saint Buriana depicted in a church window.png
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- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- date of death
- 0600-01-01
- canonization status
- Catholic saint
- feast day
- June 4
- Commons category
- Buriana
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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.
== Life == She is said to have been the daughter of an Irish king and travelled to Cornwall from Ireland in a coracle 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. 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.
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