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Flavio issued fierce denials as Lula took to the campaign trail clutching a statue of the saint, declaring that "messing" with her was "unacceptable."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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

“I’d love to paint myself as a saint, who just loves people and is concerned with empathy,” he said on the subject of his craft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Yet posterity knows this patron saint of the college English major as the father of economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Marry—no we shouldn’t! If you loved me, Jo, I should be a perfect saint, for you could make me anything you like.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As I stared into empty niches that once contained massive wooden statues of saints, I meditated on how fragile our democracy is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 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

I didn’t care about the saints, but I was fascinated by the castles perched on distant hills, the towns on outcroppings with switchbacks leading up to them, the ruins in the shadows.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

The sainted man kindly directed my husband to a urinal and then escorted him outside, handing me his clothing with sympathy and obvious relief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021

“I don’t want to hear her sainted name cross your decadent lips.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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