saint
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This clothing, says Mr. Robbins, identifies the latter as the evangelist St. Luke, patron saint of artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The rock star became the immigrant-run restaurant’s unlikely patron saint, calling on her relationship with then-Gov.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Supreme Court’s decision emerged from a suit brought on behalf of two California teachers by the Thomas More Society, a conservative public interest firm named for the 16th century Catholic saint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
They go off during summer festas, after Mass on big saint days, and, it turns out, when the governing party wins reelection.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026
Because if you think someone is a monster and the whole world says he’s a saint, you begin to think that you’re the bad person.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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
None of them are saints, and they’re not necessarily Goody Two-shoes.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
For example, their 2013 “Tailored Mosaic” line, inspired by the golden mosaics in the Cathedral of Monreale in Sicily, featured garments adorned with angels, saints and Mary, as well as biblical figures.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Like amateur detectives, we learn alongside them as they click around pages about Sumerian devils, Catholic saints and the origin of the nursery rhymes “London Bridge” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
She would shadow great saints and learn how to do selfless things for the world.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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
“Ah,” Mary Anne mocked, “the voice of sublime perfection. Was that the godly one? The sainted brother? The perfect son?”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
O, such a pretty knack at painting, And all for soft’ning, and for sainting!
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Moore, Edward Caldwell
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 Parker, Theodore
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World Religions
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Medieval Europe - Introductory
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Medieval Christendom, Lessons 1–2
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