Buriana

Saint Buriana
Saint Buriana
Born	6th century; Ireland
Died	6th century; Cornwall
Venerated in	Anglican Church, Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrine	St Buryan's Church, Cornwall
Feast	May 1

Saint Buriana (or Berriona, Beriana or Beryan)^[1] 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 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.^[2] 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.

References

^ Ellis (1992), p. 6
^ Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, p. 6

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[1] Ellis (1992), p. 6

[2] Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, p. 6

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