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This involves choosing a patron saint, and Michael speaks with the wild enthusiasm of a Marvel movie fanboy about his likely decision, St. George, who endures various grisly tortures but remains steadfast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

He wants to use the the tool to help make his feature-length film called “Sebastian,” about a Christian saint set in 3rd century Rome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Who is the patron saint of lost causes?

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Indeed, it is the same figure provided by Las Casas, patron saint of High Counters, foremost among the old Spanish sources whose estimates Henige spends many pages discounting.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“Why do you like all the saints with horrible deaths?” asks Paul, who is undecided—and perhaps growing uninterested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

In the 1990s, Christianity began playing an even larger part in fashion, as the Virgin Mary and saints began to appear on garments.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

He had heard it everywhere, in prayer and in daily speech, and wherever the saints were gathered, and in the unbelieving streets.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

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

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