patron saint

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Wales celebrates its patron saint every year on 1 March.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

The giant candlesticks’ scrolled feet support robustly modeled evangelists; Mark is most conspicuous, as befits the patron saint of Venice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The portrait of Finley’s wife, Cameron Washington, was perched in the southwest corner, looking down on the space like a kind of patron saint of all the portraits, over a dozen total.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

The ferocious storm reduced El Cobre, the 7,000-population home of a sanctuary to the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, Cuba's patron saint, to rubble.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

Indeed, it is the same figure provided by Las Casas, patron saint of High Counters, foremost among the old Spanish sources whose estimates Henige spends many pages discounting.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann