Ia of Cornwall
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Saint Ia of Cornwall (also known as Hia or Ives) was a 5th or 6th century Cornish evangelist and martyr.
Ia was said to have been an Irish princess, the sister to Saint Erc. She was a spiritual student of Saint Baricus and travelled as a missionary to Cornwall where she joined Saints Fingar and Piala. Legend holds that they had up to 777 companions and that she sailed across the Irish Sea on a cabbage leaf. Ia was martyred on the River Hayle and buried at St Ives, Cornwall, where a church, of which she is now the patron, was erected over her grave. The town built up around it. Her feast day is 3 February.
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