St Piran's Day Saint Piran's Flag is also seen flying throughout Cornwall on this day. Parades and celebrations take place in a number of towns and cities including: In 2006 Cornish MP Dan Rogerson asked the government to make 5 March a public holiday in Cornwall to recognise St Piran's Day celebrations. Some council workers in Bodmin were granted the holiday in 2006, and from 2009 Penzance Town Council offered its employees a St Piran's Day Holiday following a campaign by the Celtic League. A total of nine town and city councils across Cornwall have given their staff the day off. There have
Alexander Day (artist) Adonis", Raphael's "St. Catharine" and the "Madonna, Infant Christ, and St. John" (the "Aldobrandini Madonna"), Leonardo da Vinci's "Christ disputing with the Doctors", Domenichino's "S. Jerome and the Angel", Annibale Carracci's "Christ appearing to Simon Peter after his Resurrection", and Gaspard Poussin's "Landscape with Abraham and Isaac", which are now in the National Gallery. His portrait miniatures of ladies are particularly graceful. Day purchased from the Borghese collection Annibale Carracci's "Temptation of St Anthony", and, in 1792 Andrea Mantegna's "Adoration of the Shepherds", which William Buchanan sold to Richard Payne Knight at Downton Castle. Day died in Chelsea, London on