Saint Sulien, Sulian, or Silin was the reputed 6th-century founder-abbot of a monastery at

Luxulyan Luxulyan (; ), also spelt Luxullian or Luxulian, is a village and civil parish in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village lies four miles (6.5 km) northeast of St Austell and six miles (10 km) south of Bodmin. The population ...

("Chapel of Sulien") in

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. His feast day is 29 July. He is likely the same as the Saint Sulien of

Cornouaille Cornouaille (; , ) is a historical region on the west coast of Brittany in West France. The name is cognate with Cornwall in neighbouring Great Britain. This can be explained by the settlement of Cornouaille by migrant princes from Cornwall ...

and

Domnonée Domnonée is the modern French form of Domnonia or Dumnonia (Latin for "Devon"; ), a historic kingdom in northern Armorica ( Brittany) founded by British immigrants from Dumnonia ( Sub-Roman Devon) fleeing the Saxon invasions of Britain in t ...

. The prefix "lux" is equivalent to "loc" which means place. It is common in Brittany, but not in Cornwall, which suggests this is a Breton foundation.

Etymology

Sulien is a Welsh variant of the given name "Julian," but has also been interpreted as being derived from the Welsh ''sul'', meaning "sun" + ''geni'', meaning "born," Sulien being the name of a

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solar deity. There have probably been other Christian

saints with the same (or similar) name, and a variant of it is also used as an alias of Saint

Tysilio Saint Tysilio (also known as/confused with Saint Suliac; ; died 640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar. Sources The 12th century poet Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr wrote "An Ode to Tysilio". There is a genealogy of Tysilio in the Bonedd y ...

Other Saint Suliens

Confusion has arisen between different legends of Celtic saints with the name Sulien (in a variety of spellings). The most commonly encountered are: * Saint Sulien the Wise, bishop of

St Davids St Davids or St David's (, , "David's house”) is a cathedral city in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It lies on the River Alun and is part of the community of St Davids and the Cathedral Close. It is the resting place of Saint David, Wales's ...

.Davies, W. H., "Sulien, ' Sulgenus ', surnamed ' The Wise '; 1011 - 1091, teacher and Bishop of St David's". ''Dictionary of Welsh Biography'',(1959)
/ref> * Saint Sulinus of East Brittany – feast day 1 October. * Saint Suliau (of Wales) or Saint

, a Welsh prince – feast day 8 November. * Saint Sulien and his brother (or cousin Saint Maël) of Corwen in mid-Wales.

References

Sources

*"Saint Sulian: founder of Luxulyan church (?)" in: G. H. Doble, ''The Saints of Cornwall; part 5: Saints of Mid-Cornwall''. Truro: Dean and Chapter, 1970, pp. 104–26 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sulien People from Luxulyan Medieval Cornish saints 6th-century Christian saints

Etymology

Other Saint Suliens

See also

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