Saint Buriana (or Berriona, Beriana or Beryan) was a 6th-century
Irish saint
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, a hermit in
St Buryan, near
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...
,
Cornwall.
Baring-Gould identifies her with the Irish Saint Bruinsech.
She is said to have been the daughter of an Irish king and travelled to Cornwall from Ireland 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.
[Ellis, P. B. (1992) ''The Cornish Saints''. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, p. 6] 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.
Buriana's feast day is 1 May.
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6th-century Christian saints
Medieval Irish saints of Cornwall
6th-century Irish people
Female saints of medieval Ireland
Irish expatriates in England
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Medieval Irish saints
6th-century Irish women
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