patron

The Archangel Michael is the patron saint of police officers, so I wanted to ask Jurado if her pendant was a sly dig at her antagonists.

“My dad gave it to me a few weeks ago,” she responded, adding that it’s the patron saint of his hometown in the Philippines.

This makes me worry about what they’re going to do after November, because I think they’re in a patron–client world, where the facts don’t really matter and the Constitution obviously doesn’t matter to them.

“Sheehy,” said Francis, another patron, because Tester had been running for so many years, and everyone knew what he was about.

The club was founded in 1897 and its patron is King Charles III.