saint
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Magical realism was in its heyday, and Gabriel García Márquez was becoming its patron saint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ceuta's regional government cancelled the city's annual patron saint festivities, which were due to begin on Saturday, due to the "current circumstances".
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
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 saint put his head out of the hole and examined them suspiciously.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
The filmmaker’s Fox Nation series on the lives of saints depicts Jesus’ mother in an intriguingly unorthodox style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
She saw a miracle that transcended the miracles of the saints her mother had told her about.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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
I'd wondered why her voice sounded so strange, hoarse and broken, more like a bullfrog than my sainted Momma.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
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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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