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	Saint Genevieve Saint Genevieve , c.420-c.500, patron saint of Paris. A nun renowned for good works, she is said to have averted, by fasting and prayer, an expected attack of Attila the Hun on Paris in 451. Feast: Jan. 3.... Read more
	Saint Denis Saint Denis , fl. 3d cent.?, patron of France. He is said to have been first bishop of Paris and to have died a martyr on Montmartre . His shrine was Saint-Denis . The Latin of the name is Dionysius; he was long identified with Dionysius the Areopagite . Feast: Oct. 9.... Read more
	Saint Peter Gonzalez Saint Peter Gonzalez , 1190-1246, Spanish Dominican priest. He worked first among the Moors, then among the mariners of NW Spain. As a patron of sailors he acquired the name St. Elmo, perhaps in confusion with an earlier mariners' saint of that name, a 4th-century martyr. Saint Elmo's fire was... Read more
	Saint David Saint David d.588?, patron saint of Wales, first abbot of Menevia (present-day Saint David's ). He apparently established a strict rule and was a zealous missionary, founding 12 monasteries. His cult, which was popular in Wales from very early days, made the pilgrimage to his shrine important in... Read more
	Saint Andrew Saint Andrew [Gr.,=manly], in the New Testament, one of the Twelve Apostles, brother of Peter. According to tradition he was a missionary in Asia Minor, Macedonia, and S Russia. According to the apocryphal Acts of Andrew, he was martyred at Pátrai in Greece. He is said to have died on an... Read more
	Saint Vitus Saint Vitus , 4th cent.?, Sicilian martyr. Vitus is invoked against diseases including epilipsy, nervous disorders, and St. Vitus' Dance (Sydenham's chorea). He is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, a collective cult of saints that originated in the 14th-century Rhineland, believed to intercede... Read more
	Saint Columba Saint Columba , or Saint Columcille [Irish,=dove of the church], 521-97, Irish missionary to Scotland, called the Apostle of Caledonia. A prince of the O'Donnells of Donegal, he was educated at Moville and Clonard. In Ireland he founded the monastery schools of Derry (545), Durrow (553), and... Read more
	Saint Teresa Saint Teresa For saints thus named use Theresa, Saint.... Read more
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