Ia (saints)

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The port city of St Ives with the parish church consecrated to Ia in the middle.

Ia is a Cornish saint whose tradition goes back to at least the 13th century and after whom the port city of St Ives was named. She is also known by the names Ives and Hya . A chapel was consecrated to her in 1284 and Ia took over the parish church that was built later and still exists today as patroness. Their historicity has not been proven. Her feast day is February 3rd.

The oldest surviving written description of her life goes back to the hagiography about Gwinear , written around 1300 by the Breton cleric Anselm . According to Anselm, Ia was an Irish maiden of noble origin who reached the Irish coast too late to accompany Gwinear and his companions on their journey to Cornwall. In desperation, she sat down to pray on the beach, after which she discovered a small leaf floating on the water. When Ia touched the leaf with her staff, it miraculously enlarged to the size of a boat that Ia could pick up and take to Cornwall, where she arrived before Gwinear.

Another clue came from John Leland , who toured Cornwall around 1540. He came across another hagiography in which Ia is named as a student of Barry, another saint who translated from Ireland to Cornwall.

The celebration of their memorial day, which falls on the first Sunday after February 3rd, has been documented in St Ives since 1429. Her grave was also located in the parish church of that time. Venton Ia , a spring near Porthmeor Beach, one of the two beaches belonging to St Ives, is also dedicated to it. A chapel in Troon near Camborne was also given to Ia . The Breton parish of Plouyé , whose name means "parish of the Ia", could be associated with the same saint.

In the 15th century text The Vision of William of Stranton in the version of the manuscript Royal 17 B xliii , the protagonist is accompanied on his way through the purgatory by two saints, including Seint Ive, my suster, þat woned in Quitike . Some researchers see this as a reference to the town of Quethiock , also located in Cornwall, and thus possibly as a reference to Ia.

literature

  • Gilbert H. Doble: The Saints of Cornwall, Part One: Saints of the Land's End District . Parrett & Neves 1960, pp. 89-94.
  • FL Cross and EA Livingstone: The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . Oxford University Press 1997, ISBN 0-19-211655-X , entry Ives, St , p. 854.
  • Nicholas Orme: The Saints of Cornwall . Oxford University Press 2000, ISBN 0-19-820765-4 , pp. 144-145.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Orme, p. 144.
  2. ^ Cf. Cross: The town of St Ives in Cornwall seems to be named after another saint (a maiden, also known as St Ia, Hia, or Iva) of whom the extant legends seem equally unhistorical.
  3. ↑ Cf. Orme, p. 144, who refers here to the manuscript Chanter X (Exeter, Devon Record Office, Registers of the Bishops of Exeter), Folio 2r. Cross calls February 1st.
  4. ↑ See Doble, p. 89; Orme, p. 144
  5. ↑ See Orme, pp. 144-145.
  6. ↑ See Doble, pp. 90-92; Orme, p. 145.
  7. ^ George Philip Krapp: The Legend of Saint Patrick's Purgatory: its later history . Dissertation at Johns Hopkins University 1899, John Murphy Company, Baltimore 1900, p. 58. And Peter M. De Wilde: Les Voyages au Purgatoire de Saint Patrice: Illusion de la Réalité, Réalité de l'Illusoire . From: Fifteenth century studies , edited by William C. McDonald, Boydell & Brewer, 1998, ISBN 157113266X , p. 155, footnote 16.
personal data
SURNAME Yes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ives (English); Hya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION christian saints
DATE OF BIRTH before 1284
DATE OF DEATH before 1284
Place of death St Ives