saint

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Just as Pilates has a patron saint in Joseph Pilates, the field of somatics has the late Thomas Hanna, a philosopher and student of neurology who coined the term in 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

An image of the Catholic saint San Judas Tadeo on the floor of a building in the Cabañas La Loma complex in Tapalpa.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

His single mother is a saint who raised him and his sister despite financial and emotional hardships.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

He is also the patron saint of animals and the environment.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Later on, Úrsula had put candles on it and had prostrated herself before it, not suspecting that instead of a saint she was adoring almost four hundred pounds of gold.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez