St Piran's Day St Piran's Day St Piran's Day () is the county day of Cornwall, held on 5 March every year. The day is named after one of the patron saints of Cornwall, Saint Piran, who is also the patron saint of tin miners. St Piran's Day started as one of the many tinners' holidays observed by the tin miners of Cornwall. Other miners' holidays of a similar nature include Picrous Day and Chewidden Thursday. The miners of Breage and Germoe observed St Piran's feast day as that of their patron saint until at least 1764. "St. Piran's Day was said to
St. Jorgen's Day St. Jorgen's Day St. Jorgen's Day, ("Holiday of St. Jorgen", "The Feast of St. Jorgen", ) is a 1930 Soviet, partly silent comedy film by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky. Uncredited are the original novel by Harald Bergstedt, and the cues written by Ilf and Petrov (with the additional contribution of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky). Before the church holiday celebrating St. Jorgen, the thief Korkis (Anatoli Ktorov) escapes from prison and mingles with the gathering celebrants. He sees the large amounts of money being made by those hosting the celebration, who are mainly clergy. Korkis cannot refrain from getting involved in