saint

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And before anyone asks why my husband isn’t speaking up: I live in the Midwest, where the culture is very much “worship your mother; she is a saint.”

From MarketWatch

In January comes a theatrical film produced by Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television, “Moses the Black,” a modern riff on the legend of the 4th-century saint the movie is named for.

From The Wall Street Journal

To help Juan Diego, who was later named a saint, prove his story, the virgin is said to have imprinted her image on his cloak.

From Los Angeles Times

Looking at it now, in a time of endless preamble and an on-stage banterfest that would test the patience of a saint, they moved at breakneck speed back then.

From BBC

In 2002, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II, becoming the first Catholic saint from the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times