7-512: Buriana , also known as Berriona , Beriana , Buryan 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 and travelled to Cornwall from Ireland in a coracle as a missionary to convert the local people to Christianity . According to
14-552: A 19th-century adage is described as "the land of saints and scholars". Christianity was introduced into Ireland toward the end of the 4th century. The details of the introduction are obscure, though the strict ascetic nature of monasticism in Ireland is said to be derived from the practices of the Desert Fathers . Although there were some Christians in Ireland before Patrick , who was a native of Roman Britain , he played
21-584: A significant role in its full Christianisation. Some of the best-known saints are Saint Patrick , Colmcill , Brigid of Kildare and the Twelve Apostles of Ireland . After 1000, the process of recognizing saints was formalized, after which fewer people were named saints. Those canonized in the modern era include Oliver Plunkett (d. 1681, canonized 1975 by Pope Paul VI ) and Charles of Mount Argus (d. 1893, canonized in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI ). The medieval Irish saints were venerated locally in
28-593: Is a list of the saints of Ireland , which attempts to give an overview of saints from Ireland or venerated in Ireland. The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland , when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent. The exact number of Irish saints is not known but the Martyrology of Donegal lists 1000 saints, male and female. For this reason, Ireland in
35-544: 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. The parish church of St Buryan , St Buryan's Church , is her primary patronage. Despite her official feast being on 1 May (recorded in the Exeter Martyrology),
42-600: The areas in which they lived or established churches. With the Viking invasions, Irish churches were frequently ransacked and saints' relics and shrines were often destroyed. St Berrihert's Kyle , County Tipperary Born in Faughart , Dundalk (d. 898) Gobban Find mac Lugdach Later saints include: In 1902, Pope Leo XIII added a group of 25 medieval Irish male saints to the Roman Martyrology, giving them
49-557: The parish church of St Buryan celebrates her feast on the Sunday nearest 13 May, in accordance with the old May Day of the Julian calendar . In the Roman calendar of saints , her feast is kept on 4 June. [REDACTED] Media related to Buriana at Wikimedia Commons This article about an Irish saint is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Irish saint This
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