Editing Saint Piran

{{Short description|Cornish abbot and saint}}
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{{Infobox saint
| honorific_prefix = [[Saint]]
| name            = Piran
| birth_date      = c. 5th century
| death_date      = c. 480
| feast_day       = 5 March<ref name=MICHAEL-PIRAN-ORTH/><ref name=STANTON/><ref name=BUTLER/><ref name=SCHAFF/><ref name=HASLAM/>
| venerated_in    = [[Roman Catholic Church]]<br>[[Eastern Orthodoxy]]<ref name=MICHAEL-PIRAN-ORTH/><br>[[Anglican Communion]]
| image           = StPiran.png
| caption         =
| birth_place     = Unknown
| death_place     = [[Perranzabuloe]], Cornwall (possibly)
| titles          =
| beatified_date  =
| beatified_place =
| beatified_by    =
| canonized_date  = Pre-Congregation
| patronage       = Tinners; Cornwall
| major_shrine    = Perranzabuloe
}}

'''Piran''' or '''Pyran''' ({{langx|kw|Peran}}; {{langx|la|Piranus}}<ref>''{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180504052511/http://stpiran.org/sites/st-pirans-oratory/ St Piran’s Oratory]}}.'' St Piran Trust. Retrieved: 15 September 2015.</ref>), died c. 480,<ref name=MICHAEL-PIRAN-ORTH>''[http://www.orthodoxincornwall.org.uk/ Patrons - The Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael and Holy Piran].'' [[Oecumenical Patriarchate]], [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain|Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain]]. Laity Moor, Nr Ponsanooth, Cornwall. TR3 7HR. Retrieved: 16 February 2016.</ref><ref>''[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdmar.htm Piran (Pyran) March 5].'' Orthodox England on the 'net (St John's Orthodox Church, Colchester). Retrieved: 15 September 2015.</ref><ref>Matthew Bunson and Margaret Bunson. ''Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints.'' Second Edition. Our Sunday Visitor, 2014. pp. 683-684. {{ISBN|978-1612787169}} pp. 683-684.</ref><ref name=HASLAM56>William Haslam (Rev). ''[https://archive.org/details/perranzabuloewi00haslgoog Perran-Zabuloe: With an Account of the Past and Present State of the Oratory of St. Piran in the Sands].'' London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1844. p. 56.</ref> was a 5th-century [[Cornish people|Cornish]] [[abbot]] and saint, possibly of Irish origin. He is the [[patron saint]] of [[tin]]-[[mining|miners]], and is also generally regarded as the patron saint of [[Cornwall]], although [[Saint Michael|Michael]] and [[Saint Petroc|Petroc]] also have some claim to this title.{{#tag:ref|The cult of Saint Michael was largely due to the Norman Earls of Cornwall, while that of Saint Petroc was the most important in the [[Diocese of Cornwall]] since he was the founder of the monastery of Bodmin the most important in the diocese and, with St Germans, the seat of the bishops. He was the patron of the diocese and of Bodmin.<ref>Caroline Brett, 'Petroc (fl. 6th cent.)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], [[Oxford University Press]], 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21757 accessed 16 December 2008]</ref>|group=note}}{{#tag:ref|According to an article in the 1859 edition of the ''Ulster Journal of Archaeology'':
:* "...St. Ciaran, under the name Piran, [is the patron saint] of more than one church in Cornwall."<ref>"The Irish Monasteries in Germany." ''Ulster Journal of Archaeology.'' First Series, Vol. 7 (1859), p. 231.</ref>|group=note}}

The consensus of scholarship has identified the "Life" of Piran as a copy of that of the Irish saint [[Ciarán of Saigir]] with the names changed.<ref name=BUTLER>Rev. [[Alban Butler]] (1711–73). ''[http://bartleby.com/210/3/052.html March 5 - St. Kiaran, or Kenerin, Bishop and Confessor].'' The Lives of the Saints - Volume III: March (Bartleby.com). 1866. Retrieved: 15 September 2015.</ref><ref name=SCHAFF>"[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc03/Page_117.html Saint Ciaran of Saigir]".'' New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge''; Vol. III: Chamier - Draendorf. p. 117.</ref><ref name=HASLAM>William Haslam (Rev). ''[https://archive.org/details/perranzabuloewi00haslgoog Perran-Zabuloe: With an Account of the Past and Present State of the Oratory of St. Piran in the Sands].'' London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster, 1844. pp.53-56.</ref><ref>{{in lang|la}} Horstmann, Carl. ''"[https://archive.org/stream/novalegendaangl00wordgoog#page/n328/mode/2up De Sancto Pirano Episcopo Et Confessore]."'' In: '''Nova Legenda Anglie.''' VOL. II. Re-edited from the 1516 Edition of [[Wynkyn de Worde]]. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1901. pp. 320-328.</ref><ref>Rev. [[Sabine Baring-Gould]] (M.A.). "S. KIERAN OR PIRAN, AB. OF SAIGIR. (ABOUT A.D. 552.)" In: ''[[:iarchive:TheLivesOfTheSaintsV03|The Lives of the Saints]].'' Volume the Third: March. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp.&nbsp;66-72. p. 69.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Rev. Richard Stanton notes the following in his ''Menology of England and Wales'' (1892):
:* "According to '''[[John Lanigan (historian)|Lanigan]]''' (''Hist''., i., 22, and ii., 9), St. Piran is known in Ireland as [[Ciarán of Saigir|Kieran of Saigir]], and was a pupil of St. [[Finnian of Clonard|Finian]] in the sixth century. He is generally spoken of as [[Bishop of Ossory]], but the Irish accounts do not mention his going to England."
:* "[[Ciarán of Clonmacnoise|Queranus]], mentioned by Whitford and Wilson on 9 Sep., and honoured in Scotland, is said by '''[[Alexander Forbes (bishop of Brechin)|Forbes]]''' (''Kal. of Scottish Saints'', p. 435) to be St. Piran of Cornwall. "<ref name=STANTON>Rev. Richard Stanton. ''[https://archive.org/details/menologyofenglan00stanrich A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries].'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p.&nbsp;102.</ref>|group=note}}{{#tag:ref|"Piran or Kiaran (of Saighir)".<ref>Horstmann, Carl. ''[https://archive.org/stream/novalegendaangli01horsuoft#page/xxvi/mode/2up/search/Piran Nova Legenda Anglie].'' Re-edited from the 1516 Edition of [[Wynkyn de Worde]]. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1901. p. xxvi.</ref>|group=note}} While Piran's origins are not certain, it is generally accepted that he was Irish, that he spent time in Wales and later was expelled from Ireland because of his powerful preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<ref name=PIRAN-ORTH-WAYBACK>''{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160331132725/http://www.orthodoxincornwall.org.uk/ Patrons. The Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael and Holy Piran]}}.'' [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain|Oecumenical Patriarchate, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain]]. Laity Moor, Nr Ponsanooth, Cornwall. TR3 7HR. Wayback Machine: 31 March, 2016. Retrieved: 10 February 2023.</ref> Having been thrown into the sea tied to a mill stone, he miraculously arrived on the shores of Cornwall where he built his tiny oratory and continued his work of evangelism, founding communities.<ref name=PIRAN-ORTH-WAYBACK/>

[[Saint Piran's Flag]], a white cross on a black background, is the [[flags of Cornwall|county flag of Cornwall]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Flag of Cornwall|url=https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/flags/cornwall/|website=The Flag Institute|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> [[Saint Piran's Day]] falls on 5 March.

==Life==
Piran is the most famous of all the [[saint]]s said to have come to Cornwall from Ireland.<ref name=STANTON/><ref name=BUTLER/><ref name=SCHAFF/><ref name=HASLAM/> [[Gilbert Hunter Doble|G. H. Doble]] thought that Piran was a [[Welsh people|Welshman]] from [[Glamorgan]], citing the lost chapel once dedicated to him in [[Cardiff]].

From medieval times, since [[Brittonic languages]] and [[Goidelic languages]] regularly [[Celtic_languages#Continental/Insular_Celtic_and_P/Q-Celtic_hypotheses |alternate p and k sounds]], he had become erroneously identified with the Irish saint [[Ciarán of Saigir]] who founded the [[monastery]] at [[Saighir|Seir-Kieran]] in [[County Offaly]].{{sfn|Farmer|2003|pp=107,434-435}}{{sfn|Loth|1930}}[[Joseph Loth]] has argued, on detailed [[philology|philological]] grounds, that the names Piran and Ciarán could not possibly refer to the same person.{{sfn|Loth|1930}}

The fourteenth-century ''Life of Saint Piran'', probably written at [[Exeter Cathedral]], is a complete copy of an earlier [[Middle Irish]] life of Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish [[shrine]]; thus "excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir" ([[Doble, G. H.|Doble]]).

Professor [[Nicholas Orme]] writes in his ''Churches of Medieval Exeter'', that "it may well be that Piran was the inspiration for the Kerrian dedication (in [[Exeter]]), albeit believed (as Piran usually was) to be identical with [[Ciarán of Saigir|Ciarán]]."<ref name=ORME>Orme, Nicholas. "St Kerrian. ''The Churches of Medieval Exeter''. Impress Books, 2014. {{ISBN|9781907605529}}.</ref> Also, the saint of the church in Exeter was ''Keranus'' or ''Kyeranus'' [Queranus] in Latin documents, with ''Kerrian'' being the local vernacular pronunciation.<ref name=ORME/><ref>''"Devon has a legacy of Celtic Saints."'' [[Western Morning News]] ([[Plymouth]]). Tuesday, 2 May 2006. Page 3.</ref>

The St Piran Trust has undertaken research which suggests that Piran was either Ciarán of Saighir or a disciple, as indicated by James Brennan of Kilkenny and T. F. G. Dexter, whose thesis is held in the [[Royal Cornwall Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stpiran.org/ |title=St Piran Trust |website=Stpiran.org |access-date=5 March 2017 |archive-date=23 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223132212/http://www.stpiran.org/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> 

The Celtic Scholar [[Charles Plummer (historian)|Charles Plummer]] suggested that Piran might, instead, be identified with [[Ciarán of Clonmacnoise]], who founded the monastery of [[Clonmacnoise]] also in [[County Offaly]], but this is doubtful since this saint is believed to have died of [[yellow fever]] at the age of thirty-two and was buried at Clonmacnoise. His father is, however, sometimes said to have been a [[Cornish people|Cornishman]]. David Nash Ford accepts the Ciarán of Clonmacnoise identification, whilst further suggesting that Piran's father in the Exeter life, Domuel, be identified with [[Dywel fab Erbin]], a fifth-century prince of [[Dumnonia]] ([[Devon]] and Cornwall).

5 March is the traditional feast day of both Saint Ciarán of Saighir and Saint Piran.{{#tag:ref|"5 March.- St. Piran's day is a miners' holiday. St. Piran is the patron saint of "tinners," and is popularly supposed to have died drunk. (However, this appears to conflate Piran with St. Pyr of Caldey.)"As drunk as a Piraner" is a Cornish proverb."<ref>M. A. Courtney. "Cornish Feasts and "Feasten" Customs. [Continued]." ''The Folk-Lore Journal,'' Vol. 4, No. 3 (1886), p. 221.</ref>|group=note}} However the [[Calendar of saints|Calendar]] of [[Launceston, Cornwall|Launceston]] Church records an alternative date of 18 November for the latter.<ref name="Launceston">F. Wormald. "THE CALENDAR OF THE AUGUSTINIAN PRIORY OF LAUNCESTON IN CORNWALL." ''The Journal of Theological Studies,'' Vol. 39, No. 153 (JANUARY 1938), p. 4.</ref> In Perranzabuloe parish Perran Feast is traditionally celebrated on the last Monday in October. On the previous Sunday there are services at the site of [[Perranzabuloe|St Piran's Oratory]] and in the parish church of St Piran.

==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/>

==Death and veneration==
[[File:Blason famille bzh de Saint-Péran.svg|thumb|[[Roll of arms]] of Saint-Piran's family]]
[[File:Oratoire-de-saint-peran-trezilide.jpg|thumb|St Piran's Oratory at [[Trézilidé]], Finistère]]
Piran was reportedly executed by Theodoric or Tador, King of
Cornwall in 480, about the time of [[Vortigern]] (Usher's Prim. 869). It is also said that at his death,{{#tag:ref|"At length, however, worn out with age and infirmity, St Piran called his followers around him, and, having addressed them for the last time, desired a grave to be prepared. He then took leave of them, and, descending into it with calmness, his spirit departed on the 5th day of March, about 480. He rests, continues an old narrative of his life, in Cornwall, on the shore of the ''Severn'' sea, fifteen miles from Petroc-stowe or [[Padstow]], and twenty-five from [[Mousehole]] (two ancient harbours of Cornwall, the former on the north, and the latter on the south coast)." ("Severn sea" = Bristol channel, but now called Celtic sea.)
<ref name=HASLAM56/>|group=note}} the remains of the Blessed Martin the Abbot which he had brought from Ireland were buried with him at [[Perranzabuloe]].

His own remains were subsequently exhumed and redistributed to be venerated in various [[reliquary|reliquaries]]. [[Exeter Cathedral]] was reputed to be the possessor of one of his arms, while according to an inventory, St Piran's Old Church, Perranzabuloe, had a reliquary containing his head and also a hearse in which his body was placed for processionals. In 1443, Cornish nobleman, Sir [[John Arundell (1366–1435)|John Arundell]] bequeathed money in his will for the preservation of the head of St Piran in the chapel at Perranzabuloe.<ref>''The Saints of Cornwall'', [[Oxford University Press]], {{ISBN|0-19-820765-4}}; by [[Nicholas Orme]]  (page 221)</ref>

The churches at Perranuthnoe and Perranarworthal were dedicated to Piran and holy wells at Perranwell and [[Probus, Cornwall|Probus]], Cornwall are named after him. In [[Brittany]] St. Peran, Loperan and Saint-Perran are also named after him.<ref>Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford</ref> The former Methodist chapel at [[Laity Moor]] has served as the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] Church of [[Archangel Michael]] and Holy Piran since 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orthodoxincornwall.org.uk/|title=Home|website=Orthodoxincornwall.org.uk|access-date=10 September 2017}}</ref>

The earliest documented link to the design of the [[St Piran's Flag]] with Piran is on the coat of arms of the ''de Saint-Péran'' or ''Saint-Pezran'' (pronounced ''Péran'') family from [[Cornouaille]] in Brittany. The earliest evidence known comes from the 15th century, with the arms being ''De sable à la croix pattée d'argent.'' (a black shield with a white [[cross pattée]]).<ref>''Guide des drapeaux bretons et celtes'' (English: Guide of Breton and Celtic flags) by Divi Kervella and Mikael Bodlore-Penlaez, published by Yoran Embanner (in French), (2008) {{ISBN|978-2-916579-12-2}}</ref><ref>P. POTIER de COURCY, Nobiliaire et armorial de Bretagne, A. Aubry, 1862, p390</ref>

[[Mount St. Piran]] is a mountain in [[Banff National Park]] near [[Lake Louise, Alberta|Lake Louise]], Alberta, Canada, named after the saint. St Piran's crab, ''[[Clibanarius erythropus]]'', was also named in his honour, in 2016.

===St Piran's Day===
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[[File:St Piran's Cross - geograph.org.uk - 63222.jpg|thumb|left|St Piran's Cross in the dunes at Perranzabuloe]]
St Piran's Day on 5 March is popular in Cornwall and the term 'Perrantide' has been coined to describe the week prior to this day. Many Cornish-themed events occur in the Duchy and also in areas in which there is a large community descended from Cornish emigrants. The village of [[Perranporth]] ('Porthpyran' in [[Cornish language|Cornish]]) hosts the annual [[Pan-Celticism|inter-Celtic]] festival of {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040612123804/http://www.an-daras.com/lp/lp_intro.htm 'Lowender Peran']}}, which is also named in honour of him.

One St Piran's Day event is the march across [[Penhale Sands|the dunes]] to St Piran's cross which hundreds of people attend, generally dressed in black, white and gold, and carrying the [[Saint Piran's Flag|Cornish Flag]]. A play of the Life of St Piran, in Cornish, has been enacted since 2000 at the event. Daffodils are also carried and placed at the cross. Daffodils also feature in celebrations in [[Truro]], most likely due to their 'gold' colour. Black, white and gold are colours associated with Cornwall due to St Piran's Flag (black and white), and the [[Duchy of Cornwall|Duchy]] Shield (gold coins on black).

In 2006 Cornish MP [[Dan Rogerson]] asked the government to make 5 March a public holiday in Cornwall to recognise celebrations for St Piran's Day.<ref>''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4766464.stm  St Piran's holiday].'' BBC News. 2 March 2006, 12:19 GMT. Retrieved: 15 September 2015.</ref>
In 2010, a short movie about St. Piran was made and premiered at the Heartland Film Festival.

==See also==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
* [[Mount St. Piran]]
* [[Perranzabuloe]] - St Piran's Oratory and Old Church
* [[Portal:Catholic Church/Patron Archive/March 5|Saint Piran, patron saint archive]]
* [[St Piran Football League]]
* [[St Piran's (school)]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Sources==
* Carter, Eileen. (2001). ''In the Shadow of St Piran''
* Doble, G. H. (1965). ''The Saints of Cornwall''. Dean & Chapter of Truro.
*{{Cite book |last=Farmer |first=David Hugh |title=The Oxford dictionary of saints |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860629-1 |edition=5th|location=Oxford}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Loth |first=Joseph-Marie |date=1930 |title=Sur quelques victimes de l'hagio-onomastique en Cornwal : saint Piran, saint Keverne et saint Achebran |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1930_num_74_1_75832 |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=21–23 |doi=10.3406/crai.1930.75832}}
* Plummer, Charles. (1922). ''Betha Naem nErenn''
* Tomlin, E. W. F. (1982). ''In Search of St Piran''
* Rev. [[Charles William Boase]], M.A. (Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WDA2AQAAMAAJ&q=PIRANUS PIRANUS, ST].'' In: William Smith and Henry Wace. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines During the First Eight Centuries. Volume IV: N-Z. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1887. pp.&nbsp;404–405.

==Further reading==
* "A man of the people who liked his pint... no wonder Piran is Cornwall's hero." ''Europe Intelligence Wire'' 21 February 2012.
* Eileen Carter. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50214913 In the shadow of Saint Piran, AD 500-2000: The history of the Saint and his foundations at Perranzabuloe].'' [[Wadebridge]]: Lodenek, 2001. 90 pages. {{ISBN|9780946143283}}
* Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11794268 In search of St. Piran: An Account of His Monastic Foundation at Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, and Its Place in the Western Or Celtic Church and Society].'' Padstow, Cornwall: Lodenek Press, 1982. 41 pages. {{ISBN|9780902899995}}
* William Haslam (Rev). ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82593752 St. Piran & His Oratory: The History of a Celtic Saint].'' Penzance: Oakmagic Publications, 1998, 1845. 58 pages. {{ISBN|9781901163711}}
* William Haslam (Rev). ''[https://archive.org/details/perranzabuloewi00haslgoog Perran-Zabuloe: With an Account of the Past and Present State of the Oratory of St. Piran in the Sands].'' London: John Van Voorst, Paternoster, 1844. 181 pages. (''see: Chapter II, pp. 53-56'').
* Anthony Allen Clinnick. ''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752916628 The Story of the Three Churches of St. Piran, the miners' patron saint of Cornwall].'' A.W. Jordan: Truro, 1936. 15 pages.
* George Basil Barham. ''[https://archive.org/details/legendlandvolbei20170gut How St. Piran came to Cornwall].'' [London]: Great Western Railway (Great Britain), 1922. 4 unnumbered pages.

==External links==
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4766464.stm  St Piran's holiday]. BBC News. 2 March 2006, 12:19 GMT.
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120126105453/http://www.an-daras.com/cutoms/cu_stpirans_events.htm  St. Piran's events]}}. An Daras: The Cornish Folk Arts Project.
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/uncovered/stories/march2004/stpirans_2004.shtml  St. Piran's celebrations]. BBC Home.
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/uncovered/stories/st_piran_truro.shtml  St. Piran's Day in Truro]. BBC Home.
* [http://ancient-cornwall.wikidot.com/articles:collins01 St. Piran's Oratory – Morley B Collins, 1910]
* [http://www.orthodoxincornwall.org.uk/ The Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael and Holy Piran]. Laity Moor, Nr Ponsanooth, Cornwall. TR3 7HR.
* [https://archive.org/details/st-piran-vita-2022-v-1 The medieval life of St Piran] - Latin text and English translation.

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