saint
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On top of that, each song was inspired by a different female saint, and multiple parts were written in different languages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The Catholic Church is trying to allay fears regarding Our Lady's patron saint status, granted by the pope in 1930.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
In his statement in court, Francisco Texeira da Mota, representing Pinto, accepted that his client was "not a hero and not a saint" but said he had brought "advantages for society".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
But the movie does not make him out to be a saint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Mary Rommely, his wife and Francie’s grandmother, was a saint.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Did Jutta’s death undermine her causes or, in the way of martyred saints, give them immortality?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Instead of saints, however, the bridge has seen a lot of actors and film crews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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
None of them are saints, and they’re not necessarily Goody Two-shoes.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
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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
This she did share with Queen Victoria, who held séances, yearning for a little chat with her beloved ectoplasmic late husband, the sainted Prince Albert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
Even the sainted John McCain and Ronald Reagan failed in their first attempts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
Call’s cuss words were taught to him by his sainted grandmother and tended to be as quaint as the clothes she made for him.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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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
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World Religions
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