Dominica

Saint Dominica was, according to the British tradition, a virgin and martyr of Irish birth, a sister of Saint Indract, son of an Irish prince. With her brother and seven other young people of noble birth she came to Britain intending to go on pilgrimage to Rome. They stayed for a time at the River Tamar, where Indract founded Landrake.

On their return from Rome they halted at Shapwith near Glastonbury and were murdered by an official of the Saxon king. It is not certain that Dominica went with her brother to Rome and died at Shapwith. The church of St Dominick in Cornwall is dedicated to her and marks the site of her monastic foundation. The sources disagree on the date: 678 according to Colgan, 854 according to Baring-⁠Gould. Her name and her brother's are Irish. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.