saint
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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
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
“This dog is Gwenforte, of Ville Sainte-Geneviève. She has been venerated there as a saint ever since her martyrdom ten years ago.”
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
None of them are saints, and they’re not necessarily Goody Two-shoes.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
Billington was not among the company of saints, to put it mildly; within six months of arrival he became the first European in America to be tried for sassing the police.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
Water Island is supposed to be a part of the United States Virgin Islands, but we were never sainted like Saint Thomas or Saint John or Saint Croix, and so everyone forgets we exist.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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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