Cornwall Factoids: St Piran's Day

Artist's Impression

One of these factoids is wrong. The 5th of March is St Piran's day. The cool thing about St Piran from a Cosmo Cornish point of view is that he wasn't Cornish. St Piran, was Oirish and educated in Rome. When he arrived in Cornwall they couldn't understand him. He couldn't understand them. He founded his first "mini monastry" at Perran. As well of the patron saint of Cornwall he is the Patron Saint of Miners and Tinners. At Saint School in Rome, Pirran was voted "most likely to be cannonised". The black and white St Piran's flag is supposed to represent the veins of tin in the black hearthstone about which St Piran made his metallurgic rediscovery. Tin had been mined in Cornwall since pre-roman times, but the knowledge was lost until St Piran. One of his arms is said to be buried in Exeter Cathedral.