St Piran's Day signatures required. Towns and cities that give their staff an annual day off work for St Piran's Day: Schools that give parents the option of taking their children out of school for the 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
The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day is a play by Australian author Peter Kenna. Oola Maguire, a bookie, holds a party every St. Teresa's Day. The guests are the people she has quarrelled with in the past year, and there is only one rule – firearms must be parked in the hall. Her daughter Thelma is brought home from the convent she attends with two nuns. It won a National Playwrights Competition in 1958 and was produced in Sydney the following year by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Kenna revised the play in 1972.