medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Piran (d=2E 6th cent=2E=2C supposedly)=2E P=2E (also Peran=2C Perra=
> n) is the patron saint of Cornwall=2E His cult is first attested from 9=
> 60=2E The Domesday Book records a large minster dedicated to him at Per=
> ranzabuloe in Penhallow=2C staffed by canons=2E This came into the poss=
> ession of Exeter Cathedral=2C for whom P=2E=27s surviving Vita seems to =
> have been written in the thirteenth century=2E His relics there were th=
> e object of pilgrimage as late as 1558=2E Since the Vita was calqued on=
> that of Ciaran the elder (no=2E 2=2C above)=2C we really know very litt=
> le about the historical P=2E =
I'm hazy about the development of the Celtic languages but could this
correspondence of the Vitae of Ciaran and Piran be anything to do with the
fact that the names must be equivalent, since Cornish is P-Celtic and
whatever ur-Gaelic they spoke in Ireland at the time would have been
Q-Celtic? Which might lead to the thought that the two men were the same
person, or at least as much the same person as the several St Brides.
Pat
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