ST PIRAN, HERMIT - 5 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 5th of March

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST PIRAN, HERMIT - 5 MARCH

Saint Piran (Pyran) was a 5th or 6th century saint who lived as a hermit near Padstowe in Cornwall, and who is regarded as the patron saint of miners. 

THE PATRON SAINT OF TIN MINERS

It is impossible to disentangle the St Piran legend from the history of St Kyran Hen of Ossory. Many moderns insist on the identity of the two saints. The two names and dates of festival days are indeed identical, but the little we know of St Piran of Cornwall cannot be fitted into the life story of St Kyran [Kieran]. 

HE LIVED AT A LATER PERIOD OF CHURCH HISTORY THAN ST KIERAN

The latter belongs to a much earlier period of Church history. Still less likely is it that St Piran is one and the same with Saint Kieran of Clonmacnoise (September 9).

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)