Happy St Piran's Day

HAPPY ST PIRAN'S DAY!

St Piran is the patron Saint of the Celtic Nation of Cornwall (Kernow).

His feast day is celebrated by the Cornish at rallies, cultural events etc. just as the Welsh have their Eisteddfods etc.

Indeed the flags of St David and St Piran are closely linked (the former has a gold cross on a black background, the latter a white cross on black). There is also a Breton flag which is not widely used today which is a reverse of the St Piran flag (wikipedia shows the flag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Brittany ).

The three languages, Breton, Cornish and Welsh are strongly linked. A report on the BBC on the Cornish language had a class counting one - ten in Cornish and it was almost identical to the Welsh. Indeed, for some time Cornwall was known as 'South Wales' which may have included more of Devon as a recent genetic map of the UK showed Celtic genes strong in Devon (as in Cumbria).

In Brittany one of the Breton-speaking dioceses was Cornouaille - a clear similarity to the anglicised name Cornwall...

So a very Happy St Piran's Day to all our Cornish friends.

St Piran's Bio:

www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/pirandm.html

P.S. The St Piran's Flag, as well as the St David's flag, can be bought from FC.