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  2. Saint Piran - Wikipedia

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    Piran or Pyran (Cornish: Peran; Latin: Piranus [6]), died c. 480, [1] [7] [8] [9] was a 5th-century Cornish abbot and saint, possibly of Irish origin. He is the patron saint of tin-miners, and is also generally regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall, although Michael and Petroc also have some claim to this title.

  3. List of Cornish saints - Wikipedia

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    Flag of St Piran, used as a flag of Cornwall St Piran portrayed in a stained glass window in Truro Cathedral. This is a list of Cornish saints, including saints more loosely associated with Cornwall: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as Wales, Brittany or Devon.

  4. Cornwall - Wikipedia

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    The flag of Cornwall. Saint Piran's Flag is the national flag and ancient banner of Cornwall, [63] [64] [65] and an emblem of the Cornish people. The banner of Saint Piran is a white cross on a black background (in terms of heraldry 'sable, a cross argent'). According to legend Saint Piran adopted these colours from seeing the white tin in the ...

  5. Penhale Sands - Wikipedia

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    Building covering the partly excavated St Piran's Oratory in 1952. Penhale Sands and Perran Beach are believed to be the 6th century landing site of Saint Piran from Ireland, regarded the bringer of Christianity to, and the patron saint of Cornwall. [6] On this site, situated in a hollow, St Piran's Oratory was built around this time.

  6. St Piran's Day: Why Cornwall celebrates an Irish saint - AOL

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  7. Insular monasticism - Wikipedia

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    It had been thought that Cornwall derived a great part of its Christianity from post-Patrician Irish missions. St. Ia and her companions, and St. Piran, St. Sennen, St. Petrock, were identified as having come from Ireland. [85] However, Nicholas Orme says that evidence for Irish saints in Cornwall is "largely late and unreliable". [86]

  8. St Piran's Day - Wikipedia

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    A re-enactment of Piran crossing the Irish Sea, Helston, Floral Day 2009. The modern observance of St Piran's day as a national symbol of the people of Cornwall started in the late 19th and early 20th century when Celtic Revivalists sought to provide the people of Cornwall with a national day similar to those observed in other nations.

  9. Perran Round - Wikipedia

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    Perran Round (also known as St Piran's Round) is an amphitheatre in the hamlet of Rose, midway between the villages of Goonhavern and Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. It is described as the best surviving example of a plen-an-gwary , a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the Ordinalia , or Cornish miracle plays, [ 1 ] and Cornish wrestling ...