saint
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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
Davies also paid tribute to the Marie Curie nurses who supported Smith during the final weeks of his life and said their support was like having a "saint visiting the house".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
This clothing, says Mr. Robbins, identifies the latter as the evangelist St. Luke, patron saint of artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ms. Sonnenshine suggests he might not have been a saint, or completely sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Ethan finally stops at a dark, moldy niche holding a statue of a watchful saint that is streaked with years of weather and grime.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
As a society, we’ve been surrounded by European depictions of saints, angels and other sacred figures for generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
His children were named for Catholic saints and educated as Catholics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
None of them are saints, and they’re not necessarily Goody Two-shoes.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
Billington was not among the company of saints, to put it mildly; within six months of arrival he became the first European in America to be tried for sassing the police.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Cheering would have been the sainted Leon Panetta, former congressman, defense secretary and CIA chief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
In his travels, Tocqueville saw pieces of the famous Plymouth Rock all over: used as doorstops, as paperweights, set in the centers of mantels like the mandibles of sainted martyrs.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
The sainted man kindly directed my husband to a urinal and then escorted him outside, handing me his clothing with sympathy and obvious relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Water Island is supposed to be a part of the United States Virgin Islands, but we were never sainted like Saint Thomas or Saint John or Saint Croix, and so everyone forgets we exist.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing saint
World Religions
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Medieval Europe - Introductory
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Medieval Christendom, Lessons 1–2
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