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	Saint Piran
		Saint Piran is the patron saint of Cornwall.
		Saint Piran is the most famous of all the Irish saints who came to Cornwall.
		Exeter cathedral was reputed to be the possessor of one of his arms, while according to an inventory of St Piran's Church, Perranzabulo, had a reliquary containing his head and also a hearse in which his body was placed for processionals.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/St_Piran.html (178 words)

	St Piran
		Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners.
		One thing is certain, the suggestion that St Piran is St Kieran of Clonmacnoise does not stand as this saint it is recorded to have died at the age of 32 and is buried at his monastery.
		Legend: St. Piran lit a fire on his fl hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore. The heat caused smelting to take place and tin rose to the top in the form of a white cross (thus the image on the flag).
	www.st-piran.com /st-piran.htm (542 words)

	St Pirans Oratory, Cornwall
		Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners and the national saint of Cornwall.
		Saint Piran's Flag is a white cross on a fl background, which flies in many places in Cornwall.
		St Piran apparently was born in Ireland, landed on Perran beach and built the tiny oratory in the Irish style with the heads of a man, a woman and a beast around the arched doorway The priest's house is built inside the graveyard as in the Irish style.
	www.cornwall-calling.co.uk /churches/st-pirans-oratory.htm (879 words)

	Piran, Slovenia
		Piran (Italian Pirano) is a town and municipality in southwestern Slovenia on the Adriatic coast.
		Piran is the administrative centre of the local area and one of Slovenia's major tourist attractions.
		Piran is the birthplace of composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini (born April 8, 1692), who played an important role in shaping its cultural heritage.
	www.creekin.net /c6548-n168-piran-slovenia.html (286 words)

	Cornwall - The Encyclopedia
		Saint Piran is supposed to have adopted these two colours from seeing the white tin in the fl coals and ashes during his supposed discovery of tin.
		There are claims that the patron saint of Cornwall is Saint Michael or Saint Petroc, but Saint Piran is by far the most popular of the three and his emblem is internationally [3][4] recognised as the flag of Cornwall.
		^ DOBLE GH (1960) The saints of Cornwall
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Cornwall (5376 words)

	Saint Piran is the patron saint of tin-miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Saint Piran's Flag is a white cross on a fl background and that has been adopted as the Cornish flag.
		St Piran was probably born in Ireland and raised on the island of Cape Clear off the coast County Cork, by his father Lughaidh and mother Liedania.
		St Piran appears to have sailed to Cornwall, and landed on Perran Brach, where he built his tiny St Piran's Oratory, in the Irish style with the heads of a man, a woman and a beast around the arched doorway The priest's house is built inside the graveyard as in Ireland.
	www.cornwall-calling.co.uk /famous-cornish-people/st-piran.htm (425 words)

	St. Piran, Patron Saint of Cornwall
		Saint Piran traveled through Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, spreading the Christian faith and starting churches.It is thought that he arrived in Cornwall at Perranporth (Perran's Port), where he founded his first church and monastery in the sand hills at Perranzabuloe (Perran in the Sands)
		Saint Piran's bones, bishop's crosier (staff) and copper bell were preserved there.
		Piran became the patron saint of tinners and miners, and his feast day on 5th March was celebrated in Cornwall by receiving a day off from work and a bonus of money.
	www.request.org.uk /main/dowhat/saints/cornwall05.htm (137 words)

	The Orthodox Web Site for information about the faith, life and worship of the Orthodox Church
		Piran started his ministry in Ireland in the sixth century but the pagan Irish of the times were envious of his influence and, binding him to a millstone, threw him into the sea.
		Piran built a chapel near to where he landed and this is believed to be the oldest place of Christian worship in existence in Britain.
		Like other saints, Piran had an affinity with the wild creatures about him and it is said that his first disciples were a boar, a fox, a badger, a calf and a doe.
	home.clara.net /orthodox/saint-pr.htm (458 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Piran
		Piran's family origins are obscure; tradition says he came from Ireland.
		Piran founded churches at Perran-Uthno and Perran-Arworthal, a chapel at Tintagel, and a holy-well called the "Venton-Barren" at Probus.
		Piran was fond of the odd tipple, and resulting in the Cornish phrase "As drunk as a Perraner".
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintp43.htm (407 words)

	St Piran
		At a signal from one of the kings, the stone and the saint were rolled to the edge of, and suddenly over, the cliff into the Atlantic.
		The good saint decorated the altar in his church with the choicest flowers, and his cell was adorned with the crystals which he could collect from the neighbouring rocks.
		St Piran is not known in Blackmore, and his festival is on the 5th of March.
	members.tripod.com /cornwall_phoenicians/st_piran.htm (1759 words)

	Saint Piran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Piran's Flag consists of a white cross on a fl field
		Saint Piran's Flag is a white cross on a fl background.
		Piran is the most famous of all the saints said to have come to Cornwall from Ireland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Piran (781 words)

	Saint Piran's Flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The banner of Saint Piran is a vertical white cross on a fl background.
		Saint Peran or Saint Pezran (= Piran) of Brittany (from Glomel, in Cornouaille), in is described as "sable a cross patée argent".
		Saint Piran's Flag is now more commonly seen flying from flag poles across Cornwall than the Union Jack or the Cross of St George, yet only a generation ago many saw it as a nationalist symbol for Mebyon Kernow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Piran's_Flag (590 words)

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		Suddenly there was a clap of thunder, a bolt of lightening and there sat Saint Piran peacefully floating on the millstone in the Atlantic.
		Saint Piran made his way across the sea to Cornwall and landed between Newquay and Peranporth at a place which is now called Perranzabuloe.
		March 5th, in Cornwall, is the celebration for Saint Piran, the Patron Saint of Tin Miners and the Patron Saint of Cornwall.
	www.mpt.org /tea/newsletter/0603/2.shtml (502 words)

	The Saints of Cornwall
		Saint Breaca was a disciple of Saint Patrick and Saint Brigid.
		She is said to have landed at Reyver on the eastern bank of the river Hayle in the hundredth of Penrith where she led a solitary life in great sanctity and was honored with a church famous for pilgrimages and miracles.
		Saint Piran's Flag is a white cross on a fl background: this is well-attested in oral tradition but its provenance is disputed by historians.
	www.cornwalls.co.uk /myths-legends/saints.htm (1672 words)

	Saint Columbanus
		Saint Columbanus' rule for his monks was typical of the Celtic tradition - very austere, with many penances, fasts and lengthy recitations of the Psalms (a favorite Celtic practice) - as many as 75 a day.
		Saint Columbanus was involved in this controversy and drew upon himself the hostility of the local clerics.
		At the same time, Saint Columbanus, like Saint John the Baptist, found himself at odds with the king, Theodoric II of Burgundy, publicly rebuking him for his immoral existence, and was driven out of the country in 610 with his Irish companions.
	www.geocities.com /c_brundage/saints/columbanus.htm (729 words)

	stpiran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Saint Piran and Saint Columkille together wrote a gospel, each doing half, and these were two of the number of the twelve apostles who were ordained in Ireland to preach the word of God, and all the monks of Ireland opposed them out of envy."
		The saints tomb (presumably the oratory referred to in the Perranzabulo Church file) was excavated to find three ells below the surface of the ground, containing the body wrapped in bark, and the body was translated to the parish Church.
		Piran was remembered in Wales in a chapel dedicated to him near Cardiff Castle where, Gerald of Wales tells us, Henry II heard Mass on Low Sunday,1172.
	homepages.tesco.net /~k.wasley/stpiran.htm (326 words)

	Paul Newman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Piran Round is a large circular earthwork - possibly dating from the 5th Century B.C. - on the outskirts of Perranporth, Cornwall.
		He is the patron saint of the tinners, and is loved as much for his flaws - a tendency towards hard-drinking and flirting with the fairer sex - as for his spiritual qualities.
		Piran, after being reproached by various spectres from his own past, is suddenly revived by a vision of his mother, followed by divine affirmation of his purpose.
	www.stormloader.com /users/abrax7/donrawe.htm (4833 words)

	Woven Wheat Whispers - The Folk Year - March
		St Piran is the patron saint of Cornwall and the adopted saint of the Cornish tin miners.
		Cornish legend tells that as an old man, Piran was captured by pagan Irish and thrown from a clifftop into a stormy sea with a millstone tied to his neck.
		Saint David (Dewi Sant in Welsh) is the Patron Saint of Wales.
	www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk /TheFolkYear_March.htm (3292 words)

	Britannia EBK Biographies: St. Piran
		Piran is the most popular of the Patron Saints of Cornwall (the others being St. Michael and St. Petroc).
		Piran's rise to be Cornwall's Patron stems from his popularity with the Cornish tin-miners.
		Piran was fond of the odd tipple and he is still remembered today in the Cornish phrase "As drunk as a Perraner".
	www.britannia.com /bios/ebk/pirandm.html (636 words)

	Oratory
		Piran's first oratory was probably built of wattle and daub which was not very durable so a new one of stone was built at a later date.
		People loved their saint so much that they wanted to be, in death as in life, as close to him as possible and so the oratory thrived for centuries.
		must have been a very traumatic decision for them, to abandon the place of their beloved saint; but eventually nature decided for them, and a new site was decided upon, a few minutes walk to the east, across a small stream.
	www.st-piran.com /oratory.htm (369 words)

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		Piran was a little round man; and in the beginning he dwelt on the north coast of Ireland, in a leafy mill, past which a stream came tumbling down to the sea.
		For all St. Piran's business was the study of objects that presented themselves to his notice, or, as he called it, the "Rapture av Contemplation"; and as for his livelihood, he earned it in the simplest way.
		This could not be answered for the moment; but the saints turned their horses' heads from the sea, and moved slowly on the track of the sound, which at every step grew louder and more distinct.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/2/2/7/12277/12277.txt (22449 words)

	St Piran's Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Piran is the patron saint of Cornwall, the southern most corner of Great Britain.
		The flag of St Piran is the Cornish flag - white cross on a fl background symbolising the discovery of tin by the saint as the white metal flowed from the fl rock.
		Piran built himself a small chapel in Penhale sands and his first disciples were said to be a badger, a fox and a bear.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/questions/piran.htm (348 words)

	Saint Piran - Cornish World Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		So much so that now the legend of St Piran, one time Irish agitator and subsequent patron saint of tin miners and the Cornish in general, is hard to swallow.
		Piran is said to have discovered tin, as the white metal trickled from a rock in his fire of a cold night.
		The flag of St Piran replicates the tin in the Cornish rock.
	www.cornishworldmagazine.co.uk /history/stpiran.htm (290 words)

	St Piran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		St Piran built his small chapel in the Penhale sand dunes of Perranzabuloe and his first disciples were said to be a badger, a fox and a bear.
		Exeter Cathedral is also refuted to have been once the fortunate possessor of one of St Piran’s arms; whilst according to an inventory in 1281, St Piran's church was a mausoleum containing his head and a hearse in which his body was placed for processions.
		Near the ruins of the church and close the 11th Century Chapel is the four holed Cross of St Piran which is said to be one of the oldest crosses in Cornwall.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /faull/St_Piran.html (538 words)

	ipedia.com: Cornwall Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There is some dispute about whether the patron saint of Cornwall is Saint Michael or Saint Piran.
		Saint Piran is the more popular of the two; his emblem (a vertical white cross on a fl background) is recognised as the flag of Cornwall, and his day (March 5) is celebrated by Cornish people around the world.
		Saint Piran's Flag has been adopted by Cornish secessionists, but it is used much more as a non-political symbol of Cornwall - by those wishing to display a loyalty and pride in their county, for example.
	www.ipedia.com /cornwall.html (1000 words)

	CLAB: The Six Celtic Flags
		Popularly known as “The Cross of Saint Andrew,” the national flag of Alba (Scotland) is among the oldest of national flags.
		That night he dreamt that Saint Andrew came to him and told him that his army would not only be saved but would be victorious over the Angels.
		Saint Piran was an Irish missionary who is credited with bringing Christianity to Cornwall in the fifth century.
	www.celticleague.org /flags.html (2008 words)

	Religious orders / Flags of saints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Christian symbolism several saints are associated with specific crosses, either of a specific colour and/or of a specific shape.
		Saint Piran: A white Cross on a fl field.
		Saint Yves: (in Brittany) is a fl cross on gold, with four scraggly birds in each quarter.
	www.fotw.us /flags/rord.html (2467 words)

	BBC - Cornwall Uncovered - Story St Piran's Day Celebrations
		+ St Piran was born in Ireland and studied in Rome.
		St Piran was born in Ireland and studied the scriptures in Rome.
		However the Kings were not impressed and wishing to show their power, St Piran was flung into the sea in Ireland.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cornwall/uncovered/stories/march2004/stpirans_2004.shtml (605 words)

	Cornwall (United Kingdom)
		The fl flag with the white cross is the banner of Saint Piran, and is now recognized as the 'national flag' of Cornwall.
		Piran was apparently a 6th Century holy man who floated across to Cornwall from Ireland on a millstone.
		It is the Cornish flag (St Piran's Cross) with the addition of the United Kingdom union flag in the canton (like the Royal Navy's white ensign).
	www.fotw.net /flags/gb-corn.html (2184 words)

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