This is a list of Cornish saints, including

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: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as

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List of some of the well-known Cornish saints

For more information see the works of Canon Doble (1880–1945),

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's book, ''The Saints of Cornwall'' (2000), and the works of Charles Henderson ''N.B.'' All these have dedications in Cornwall but not all have legends or traditions associating them with Cornwall.

Honorary canons of Truro

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The 24 honorary canons of

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occupy stalls named after 24 saints (almost all of them Cornish):

Carantoc Saint Carantoc ( cy, Carannog; ga, Cairnech; br, Karanteg; la, Carantocus), also anglicized as Carantock, Carannog and by other spellings, was a 6th-century abbot, confessor, and saint in Wales and the West Country. He is credited with foundin ...

;

Buriana Saint Buriana (or Berriona, Beriana or Beryan) 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 an ...

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Germoe Germoe ( kw, Germogh) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Germoe village, the parish's main settlement and church town, is about five miles (8 km) west of Helston and seven miles (11.3 km) east of Penz ...

; Conan; Winwalloe; Nectan; Petroc; Adwenna; Piran;

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Cybi Saint Cuby (in Cornish) or Saint Cybi (in Welsh) was a 6th-century Cornish bishop, saint and, briefly, king, who worked largely in Cornwall and North Wales: his biography is recorded in two slightly variant medieval 'lives'. Life in Cornwal ...

; Paul; Breaca;

Neot Neot (died 31 July 877) was an English monk. Born in the first half of the ninth century, he lived as a monk at Glastonbury Abbey. He preferred to perform his religious devotions privately, and he later went to live an isolated life in Cornwall ...

;

Rumon Tavistock Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon, is a ruined Benedictine abbey in Tavistock, Devon. Nothing remains of the abbey except the refectory, two gateways and a porch. The abbey church, dedicated to Our Lady and S ...

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; Meriadoc; Euni; Ia;

Endelienta Saint Endelienta (also Endelient, 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 sibl ...

; Columb; Corentin;

Aldhelm Aldhelm ( ang, Ealdhelm, la, Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (c. 63925 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the so ...

Modern Cornish saints

More recent Cornishmen recognized for sanctity include the Irish-Cornish martyr Blessed John Cornelius.

References

*Nicholas Roscarrock (d. 1634) left an interesting account of the lives of the saints.Roscarrock
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External links

A - Z of saints by St Patrick's Washington DC
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List of some of the well-known Cornish saints

Honorary canons of Truro

Modern Cornish saints

See also

References

Further reading

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