Бриаге: Корнуолл қасиеттісі және ауылы

the civil parish and village in Cornwall, England

Breage or Breaca (with many variant spellings) is a saint venerated in Cornwall and South West England. According to her late hagiography, she was an Irish nun of the 5th or 6th century who founded a church in Cornwall. The village and civil parish of Breage in Cornwall are named after her, and the local Breage Parish Church is dedicated to her. She is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church.

Breage Church was established by 1170, giving its name to the village and parish of Breage, Cornwall. However, little else is known of Saint Breage or her early cultus. She was the subject of a medieval hagiography, probably written in the 14th or 15th century. The work is lost, but the English antiquarian John Leland recorded some extracts in his Itinerary around 1540. The surviving text suggests an initial composition at or for Breage Church, as it contains a number of references to local places and gives Breage precedence over other saints of the region. Undeterred, Breage travelled through Cornwall, visiting the hill of Pencaire and establishing a church at Trenewith or Chynoweth. After her death the church was moved to its present location, and many miracles occurred at her tomb. A Breage Fair is held on the third Monday in June. were held in the field adjoining the Queens Arms inn. Tom Magor from Breage was for some time All England Champion in the early 1800s. Peter Carlyon (1846 1926), from Breage, emigrated to the US and became the world lightweight Cornish wrestling champion in 1876, having defeated Tom Carkeek. In 1886 he was the lightweight champion of America. He also came to compete in the UK.