
Saints This Month – 5 March St Piran of Cornwall

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Interestingly enough, I am writing a novel about a fictional community in the old mining region of southwest Wisconsin, settled in part by Cornish miners. In the novel there is a tiny group of Dominican Sisters (essentially a “pious union” sort of thing) who were founded (too grand a word) by an Italian Dominican friar sent to the area in the 1840s and who dedicated his parish/chapel to St. Piran, hoping to lure some of the Cornish Methodists to his faith. His ploy to attract Cornish converts is not particularly successful, but because of the parish where they work, the sisters become know as Dominican Sisters of St. Piran. The Dominican connection is not a significant theme, but I was delighted to find this post — lo, these many years after it was written! — that provided another slender thread of a connection between the saint and the Order.