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On top of that, each song was inspired by a different female saint, and multiple parts were written in different languages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Industry friends won’t unless they’re either a saint, a sap or just stupid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The furore erupted after media reports that figures in the Catholic Church were concerned about the future status of the saint, Our Lady of Aparecida.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

In his statement in court, Francisco Texeira da Mota, representing Pinto, accepted that his client was "not a hero and not a saint" but said he had brought "advantages for society".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

When she spoke of Pauline Hawthorne, her tone was half the adoration of a schoolgirl for a crush, half the adoration of a devotee for a saint.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The author’s ill-matched father and mother are saints; his stepmother, Raine Spencer, a sinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Every religion needs its saints, and mine wore number 12.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

As a society, we’ve been surrounded by European depictions of saints, angels and other sacred figures for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Vietnam has had 117 people beatified and later canonised as saints, but the Church said this was the first time a beatification ceremony had been held in the country rather than at the Vatican.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

She and the frightful look of the saints in the glow of the nocturnal lamp were the two memories he retained of the house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cheering would have been the sainted Leon Panetta, former congressman, defense secretary and CIA chief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

In his travels, Tocqueville saw pieces of the famous Plymouth Rock all over: used as doorstops, as paperweights, set in the centers of mantels like the mandibles of sainted martyrs.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

This she did share with Queen Victoria, who held séances, yearning for a little chat with her beloved ectoplasmic late husband, the sainted Prince Albert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024

Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

Water Island is supposed to be a part of the United States Virgin Islands, but we were never sainted like Saint Thomas or Saint John or Saint Croix, and so everyone forgets we exist.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender

Here is ... the sainting of two horrid conspirators!

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

O, such a pretty knack at painting, And all for soft’ning, and for sainting!

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore