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In his statement in court, Francisco Texeira da Mota, representing Pinto, accepted that his client was "not a hero and not a saint" but said he had brought "advantages for society".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Catholic Church declared Archbishop Fulton Sheen “blessed” in St. Louis on Thursday, placing him one step away from becoming the first bishop born in America to be canonized a saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“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

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

When I asked him for his reaction, he replied, “I don’t care how often people say, ‘You’re a saint.’

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Instead of saints, however, the bridge has seen a lot of actors and film crews.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“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

My mother said the Virgin was the saint of our land, and although there were many other good saints, I loved none as dearly as the Virgin.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

Francis, now retired in the Sierra foothills, is quite mindful of the Carter narrative — lousy president, sainted ex-president — and reacted to its mention in a tone that mixed weariness with resignation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

“I don’t want to hear her sainted name cross your decadent lips.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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