History of Saint Piran

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It is said that at his death the remains of the Blessed Martin the Abbot which he had brought from Ireland were buried with him; his own remains were subsequently exhumed and redistributed to be used as reliquaries. Exeter Cathedral was reputed to be the possessor of one of his arms, while according to an inventory of St Piran's Church, Perranzabulo, had a reliquary containing his head and a hearse in which his body was placed (for processions). He is sometimes confused with the Irish Ciaran of Saighir, honoured in Brittany. There is a shrine to him beside the road between St Pol-de-Leon and Lesneven.

It is said that at his death the remains of the Blessed Martin the Abbot which he had brought from Ireland were buried with him at Perranzabulo; his own remains were subsequently exhumed and redistributed to be used as reliquaries. Exeter cathedral was reputed to be the possessor of one of his arms, while according to an inventory of St Piran's Church, Perranzabulo, had a reliquary containing his head and also a hearse in which his body was placed for processionals.