Editing Saint Piran (section)

==Legends==
[[File:Flag of Cornwall.svg|thumb|[[Saint Piran's Flag]] consists of a white cross on a black field]]
* The Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of [[Perranzabuloe]] in Cornwall. His first disciples are said to have been a badger, a fox, and a bear<ref name="st">{{cite web |date=4 March 2012 |title=St Pirans Day |url=http://www.stpiransday.com/ |access-date=5 March 2017 |publisher=St Pirans Day|url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320115837/http://www.stpiransday.com/ |archive-date=20 March 2016 }}</ref>
* He landed in Cornwall, and there established himself as a hermit. His sanctity and his austerity won for him the veneration of all around, and the [[Thaumaturgy|gift of miracles]], with which he was favoured, brought many to seek his charitable aid.<ref name=STANTON/>
* He was joined at Perranzabuloe by many of his Christian converts and together they founded the [[Abbey of Lanpiran]], with Piran as abbot.
* Piran 'rediscovered' tin-smelting (tin had been [[smelting|smelted]] in Cornwall since before the [[Roman Britain|Romans']] arrival, but the methods had since been lost) when the tin in his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of [[cassiterite|tin-bearing ore]], was smelted out of it and rose to the top in the form of a white cross (thus the image on the flag).<ref name=st/>