Ia«Ives / Hia / Hya / Eia»
(† 450)
Evangelist, Martyr, Virgin
Place of birth:Ireland (Early Christian)†
Place of death:Kingdom of Dumnonia††
Place(s) associated with:St Ives (Cornwall)†††; Troon††††
Feastday
3 February
Patronage
Patron of:St Ives (Cornwall)
†Ériu - Éire (Luath-Chríostaí) / Hibernia - Scotia (Palaeochristiana) / Ἰουερνία - Ιρλανδία (Παλαιοχριστιανική) [400–795]
††Myghterneth Kernow / Regnum Dumnoniorum [78–c. 936]
†††Porth Ia (Kernow)
††††Trewoon
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
Select a saint’s name from the dropdown below to see more details:
Select criteria below and submit the form to see a list of saints that match the criteria:
Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia