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Saint

Kea

A British saint of the 6th century, venerated in Devon, Cornwall and Brittany.

Feast
November 5old style November 18
Reposed
6006th century
Place
Devon

Life

Saint Kea was a British saint who came from the northern lands of Britain, that is, the south of Scotland and the north of England today. According to tradition he worked chiefly in Cornwall and Devon, and then in Brittany, where he is venerated as Saint Quay (Ké). The village of Landkey in Devon bears his name. His veneration also spread through Wales and the West Country. He is thought to have lived in the late fifth or the sixth century.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 5 November (new style, Western calendar). He is not to be confused with Saint Kenan of Duleek in Ireland, remembered on 24 November, though some lists mix up the two names.

Commemorated the same day November 5