patron saint

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.

The Samaritans passed a small shrine to St. Jude — the patron saint of lost causes — on the Mexico side.

There were times on the first day of the first Test against Pakistan that England must have hoped for help from the patron saint of taking wickets.

He declares himself "the patron saint of the denial / With an angel face and a taste for suicidal," representing a more aggressive rejection of societal norms.

I light a candle in front of Santa Barbara, the patron saint of my family, and ask her to guide me.