Saint Endelienta

Saint Endelienta
The Collegiate Church of St Endellion, patronal church of St Endelienta
Bornc. 470 AD
South Wales
Diedunknown
Cornwall
Venerated inRoman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Orthodoxy
Major shrineSt Endellion, Cornwall, England
Feast29 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.