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

The 24 honorary canons of

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

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Conan Conan may refer to: People * Saint Conan (died 684), bishop of the Isle of Man * Conan of Cornwall (c. 930 – c. 950), bishop of Cornwall * Conan I of Rennes (died 992), duke of Brythonic Brittany * Conan II, Duke of Brittany (died 1066), duke ...

; Winwalloe; Nectan; Petroc;

Adwenna Adwen or Adwenna is purported to have been a 5th-century Christian virgin and saint.Baring-Gould, Sabine & al''The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain'', Vol.&nb ...

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Cybi Saint Cybi ( Welsh), or Cuby ( Cornish), 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 Cornwall The ''vi ...

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; 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 ...

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Rumon Tavistock Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon, is a ruined Benedictine abbey in Tavistock, Devon. The Abbey was surrendered in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Nothing remains of the abbey except the refec ...

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; Meriadoc; Euni; Ia;

Endelienta Endelient (also Endelienta, 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 siblings i ...

; Columb; Corentin;

Aldhelm Aldhelm (, ; 25 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 son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex ...

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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