saint
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“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
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
Davies also paid tribute to the Marie Curie nurses who supported Smith during the final weeks of his life and said their support was like having a "saint visiting the house".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Kayla is a straight-up saint because she lets her.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
Readers can decide if these are serious offenses among the cast of dedicated saints known as the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
None of them are saints, and they’re not necessarily Goody Two-shoes.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
His dark beard and sharp cheekbones made him look like the cards with Jesus and the martyred saints that Abuelita pinned to the wall around her altar.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Cheering would have been the sainted Leon Panetta, former congressman, defense secretary and CIA chief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Every few years, Americans across the country are beleaguered with a Herculean task usually reserved for the sainted: They must think about Canada.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2025
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
“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 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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