Holy Venerables
Breaca
An Irish virgin and disciple of Saint Brigid, honored in Cornwall.
- Feast
- June 4old style June 17
- Reposed
- 4605th century
- Place
- Saint Brigid
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Breaca was a disciple of Saint Brigid in Ireland. Around the year 460 she crossed the sea from Ireland to Cornwall with several companions. The sources place her between the fifth and sixth centuries.
No further details of her life survive. She is commemorated on 4 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.
Commemorated the same day June 4
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Metrophanes of ByzantiumSaint · Bishop of ByzantiumJun 4
Petroc of CornwallVenerable · British prince and missionaryJun 4.jpg)
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Sophia of SlutskRight-Believing · Princess of SlutskJun 4
Sophia of ThraceVenerable · Mother of ThraceJun 4
George BogićHieromartyr · Protopresbyter at NašiceJun 4
Methodius of PeshnoshaVenerable · Founder of Peshnosha MonasteryJun 4- Clateus of BresciaHieromartyr · Bishop of BresciaJun 4
- Frontasius, Severinus, Severianus and SilanusHoly MartyrsJun 4
- 90 Hieromartyrs of Montenegro and the LittoralHoly HieromartyrsJun 4