Breage
Catholic saint
Who they were
Breage or Breaca (with many variant spellings) is a saint venerated in Cornwall and South West England. According to her late hagiography, she was an Irish nun of the 5th or 6th century who founded a church in Cornwall. The village and civil parish of Breage in Cornwall are named after her, and the local Breage Parish Church is dedicated to her. She is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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- CatholicSaints.Info - Saint Breaca of Cornwall — A Menology of England and Wales lists her too, as patron of the Cornish church of Breage, come from Ireland with St Sinninus.
- Wikidata Q2045572 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Breage (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.