Saint Endelienta | |
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![]() The Collegiate Church of St Endellion, patronal church of St Endelienta | |
Born | c. 470 AD South Wales |
Died | unknown Cornwall |
Venerated in | Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Orthodoxy |
Major shrine | St Endellion, Cornwall, England |
Feast | 29 April |
Saint Endelienta (also Endelient, 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 in converting the locals to Christianity. Legend says that she was a goddaughter of King Arthur, and that she lived as a hermit at Trentinney where she subsisted on the milk of a cow. The saint is commemorated in the church and village of St Endellion which bear her name; Endellion being an Anglicised version of her name. Her feast day is 29 April.