{{Short description|Reputed 6th-century founder-abbot of a monastery at Luxulyan in Cornwall}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} <!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled --> <!-- For administrator use only: {{Old AfD multi|page=St. Sulien or Sulian|date=18 November 2011|result='''keep'''}} --> <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> {{Infobox saint |name=Saint Sulien |birth_date=c. 6th century |death_date=c. 6th century |feast_day=29 July |venerated_in=Christianity |image= |imagesize= |caption= |birth_place= |death_place=''probably'' Luxulyan, Cornwall |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= |prayer= |prayer_attrib= }} '''Saint Sulien''', '''Sulian''', or '''Silin''' was the reputed 6th-century founder-abbot of a monastery at Luxulyan ("Chapel of Sulien")<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JxIjiMStTKIC&pg=PA23&dq=Saint+Sulien+of+Luxulyan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6x5PA3cuIAxXMF1kFHX7qEKoQ6AF6BAgPEAI#v=onepage&q=Saint%20Sulien%20of%20Luxulyan&f=false Orme, Nicholas. ''The Saints of Cornwall'', OUP Oxford, 2000, p. 23] {{ISBN|9780191542893}}</ref> in Cornwall. His feast day is 29 July. He is likely the same as the Saint Sulien of Cornouaille and Domnonée.<ref>[https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100541651?p=emailACym/zsYINkm.&d=/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100541651 "Sulian", ''The Oxford Dictionary of Saints'', 5th ed. (David Farmer, ed.) OUP, 2011] {{ISBN|9780199596607}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hhvLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&dq=Saint+Sulien+of+Luxulyan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6x5PA3cuIAxXMF1kFHX7qEKoQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=Saint%20Sulien%20of%20Luxulyan&f=false Rees, Elizabeth. ''Early Christianity in South-West Britain'', Oxbow Books, 2020, p. 208] {{ISBN|9781911188582}}</ref> The prefix "lux" is equivalent to "loc" which means place. It is common in Brittany, but not in Cornwall, which suggests this is a Breton foundation.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jvMSDQAAQBAJ&pg=PP276&dq=Saint+Sulien+of+Luxulyan&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6x5PA3cuIAxXMF1kFHX7qEKoQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=Saint%20Sulien%20of%20Luxulyan&f=false Rees, Elizabeth. ''Dictionary of Celtic Saints'', The History Press, 2012, no pagination] {{ISBN|9780752490175}}</ref>
==Etymology== Sulien is a Welsh variant of the given name "Julian," but has also been interpreted as being derived from the Welsh ''sul'', meaning "sun" + ''geni'', meaning "born," Sulien being the name of a Celtic solar deity.<ref>Doble, G. H. (1970) ''The Saints of Cornwall: part 5''. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 104–126</ref>
There have probably been other Christian Celtic saints with the same (or similar) name, and a variant of it is also used as an alias of Saint Tysilio.
==Other Saint Suliens== Confusion has arisen between different legends of Celtic saints with the name Sulien (in a variety of spellings). The most commonly encountered are:
* Saint Sulien the Wise, bishop of St Davids.<ref>[https://biography.wales/article/s-SULI-EN0-1011 Davies, W. H., "Sulien, ' Sulgenus ', surnamed ' The Wise '; 1011 - 1091, teacher and Bishop of St David's". ''Dictionary of Welsh Biography'',(1959)]</ref> * Saint Sulinus of East Brittany – feast day 1 October. * Saint Suliau (of Wales) or Saint Tysilio, a Welsh prince – feast day 8 November. * Saint Sulien and his brother (or cousin Saint Maël) of Corwen in mid-Wales.
== See also == *SS Mael and Sulien's Church, Corwen
== References == {{Portal|Cornwall}} {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *"Saint Sulian: founder of Luxulyan church (?)" in: G. H. Doble, ''The Saints of Cornwall; part 5: Saints of Mid-Cornwall''. Truro: Dean and Chapter, 1970, pp. 104–26
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