Feastday: October 18
Death: 5th century
Welsh virgin, also called Keyne or Ceinwen. She is possibly one of the twenty-four children of the chieftain Brychan of Brecknock, Wales. Keyna supposedly became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somerset, England St. Cadoc, her nephew, convinced her to return to Wales. She founded churches in southern Wales and in Cornwall, England, and possibly in Somerset.
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