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patron saint

noun

a saint regarded as the special guardian of a person, group, trade, country, etc.

patron saint

a saint regarded as the particular guardian of a country, church, trade, person, etc

patron saint

A saint from whom a person or group claims special protection or prayers. Saint Christopher , for example, is considered the patron of travelers; Saint Luke, the patron of doctors; and Saint Patrick , the patron of Ireland . People who have the same name as a saint may consider the saint their patron. The honoring of patron saints is especially common in the Roman Catholic Church .

First recorded in 1710–20

At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.

Even the patron saint of teenage girls, Judy Blume, is featured on the back cover with a blurb for the book.

He subsequently spread the faith to what became Russia, which embraces him as a patron saint.

A decaying statue of St. Lucia, patron saint of the blind, holds a platter with two eyes.

They filed out beneath the stained-glass windows depicting the patron saint of beekeepers and candle makers.

It was believed in Ypres that the town had been saved by the intercession of the Virgin Mary, its patron saint.

She took part in the erection of the Cathedral of Ely amid the morasses of the “Fen” country, and was chosen as its patron saint.

San Francisco Bay, the harbor the Franciscans named for their patron saint, is noted for its picturesque scenery.

Piran, the patron saint of tinners, would hardly have called down such a curse, though he might have done so if greatly provoked.

Meeting, therefore, on so auspicious a day as that of the patron saint, might in "merrie time" of old induce a little festivity.

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