saints
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Military heroes can be depicted on horseback clutching the accoutrements of war, statesmen shown gesturing dramatically in mid-oration, and saints and clerics rendered awash in revelation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Threaded through the narrative, as contrast and commentary, is a martyrology of female saints.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
The County Down town may be better known as the home of St Patrick, but it's said Ireland's two other patron saints, Brigid and Colmcille are also buried there.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
Last week she celebrated an event whose significance in her beleaguered land extends well beyond the spiritual: the canonization by Pope Leo XIV of two of her compatriots, the first Catholic saints in Venezuelan history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
No one, none of the saints in any case, had ever reproached or rebuked his father, or suggested that his life was anything but spotless.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
