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Also 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
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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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