patroness

Her canonization was finalized in 1946, with the Vatican declaring her Patroness of Immigrants in 1950.

In 1821 rumor had it that he intended to wed a miller's widow, his patroness, who was thirty-two years old.

She was the patroness of hunters, fishermen and sailors, and also a goddess of birth and health.

Margaret, who neither wanted sense nor feeling, wiped her tears hastily, and asked her patroness's forgiveness for her petulance.

She was the patroness of every art, and the friend of every man of genius.

From the first Batt applied himself to win his patroness' favour to his clever and needy friend.