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Saint Buriana 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 as a missionary to convert the local people to Christianity. 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.Buriana’s feast day is 1 May.