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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.
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.
St Piran's Day started as one of the many tinners' holidays observed by the tin miners of Cornwall. [2] Other miners' holidays of a similar nature include Picrous Day and Chewidden Thursday. The miners of Breage and Germoe observed St Piran's feast day as that of their patron saint until at least 1764. [3]
Piran or Pyran (Cornish: Peran; Latin: Piranus), died c. 480, 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.
How Saint Piran, an Irishman known for his indulgence, captured the hearts and minds of the Cornish.
A reputed King of Cornwall named Constantine was venerated in Cornwall as a saint, one of several saints named Constantine known in the Celtic church; St Corentin, missionary to Brittany [1] John of Cornwall, medieval scholar; St Petroc, a patron saint of Cornwall and of Devon [2] St Piran, a patron saint of Cornwall and tin miners [3]
Inside St Michael's Church, Michaelstow St Piran (detail of a stained glass window at Truro Cathedral). Nothing is known about the beginnings of Christianity in Cornwall. Scilly has been identified as the place of exile of two heretical 4th-century bishops from Gaul, Instantius and Tiberianus, who were followers of Priscillian and were banished after the Council of Bordeaux in
Like many Cornish saints, public and liturgical veneration of Ia is mostly limited to the area surrounding her patronal town. Ia has two churches dedicated to her, both in St Ives: St Ia's Church, which is of the Church of England, and a Catholic church dedicated to the Sacred Heart and Saint Ia. [5] A now ruined chapel near Troon was also dedicated to her, initially built around the 10th ...