Saint Kea

Saint Kea
Confessor
Born	probably Lothian
Died	early 6th century Cleder, Brittany
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion
Major shrine	Cleder, Brittany
Feast	5 November
Attributes	hermit with a stag

Saint Kea (Cornish: Ke; French: Ké) was a late 5th-century British saint from the Hen Ogledd ("Old North")—the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England. According to tradition he was chiefly active in Cornwall, Devon and Brittany, and his cult was popular in those regions as well as throughout Wales and the West Country. St Fili or Filius to whom the parish church of Philleigh is dedicated probably came from Wales and is said to have been a companion of St Kea.

Kea is chiefly known through a French summary of a lost Latin hagiography written by Maurice of Cleder in the 17th century, as well as Beunans Ke, an incomplete 16th-century Cornish-language play rediscovered in 2000.

According to these, he was the son of King Lleuddun Luyddog of Lothian, and served as bishop in North Britain before moving on to become a hermit. He first went to Wales and then moved south, founding churches at Street, Somerset and Landkey, Devon (holy place of St Kea). He finally settled at Kea in Cornwall, which was subsequently named for him. He was harassed by the Cornish king, Teudar, when he sheltered a deer that Teudar was hunting. Having his oxen confiscated, he used the deer to plow the soil instead. He later travelled over the Channel to Cleder in Brittany, where he eventually died.

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