Saints
Bradan and Orora
Two saints remembered together in Western calendars; few details survive.
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- Era
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Life
Bradan and Orora are two saints venerated on the Isle of Man. Their lives have been lost, so the information about them is almost non-existent. Bradan is called a bishop, and both are cited as "confessors" in a document of the Bollandists. The period in which they lived is unknown: a church dedicated to Saint Bradan is recorded at Kirk Braddan near Douglas, in which a synod was held in 1291, presided over by Mark, bishop of Sodor. A church dedicated to Saint Orora, today probably lost, is cited as Ecclesia S. Crorse on a sixteenth-century map by Thomas Stanley.
In Italy, at least since the 1950s, Saint Orora is wrongly known also under the name "Saint Aurora", which appears in some calendars and on various websites. The source gives no feast day.