Was the Patron Saint of Cornwall rescued by a fish, an ocean sunfish maybe??
St Piran was brought up in South Wales in the 5th century and founded a church in Cardiff. He then moved to Ireland where he became famous for healing the sick. However, according to legend, in his old age he was captured by a band of pagans. These ruffians tied a millstone around his neck and flung him off a high cliff at the height of a raging storm. Miraculously as he sank beneath the mountainous waves the storm calmed, and the millstone floated up taking him with it. Piran clambered on to the millstone and using it as a raft sailed away on it. He landed at Perran Beach in North Cornwall, where he set up a church, discovered tin for the Cornish, and performed many further miracles. Could St. Piran’s millstone have been a fish? The Sunfish with it large grey round shape has the scientific name of Mola mola, meaning, guess what, MILLSTONE. So maybe he was simply thrown into the water from the cliff top and when he bobbed up to the surface was able to seize hold of a passing sunfish, w
