When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Jesús Malverde - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús_Malverde

    The outlaw image has caused him to be adopted as the "patron saint" of the region's illegal drug trade, and the press have thus dubbed him "the narco-saint." [ 12 ] However, his intercession is also sought by those with troubles of various kinds, and a number of supposed miracles have been locally attributed to him, including personal healings ...

  3. Narco-saint - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-saint

    A religious bust of Jesús Malverde, a popular narco-saint, with a marijuana leaf-shaped necklace. Narco-saints (Spanish: Narcosantos) are Catholic Saints and folk saints that are venerated (or sometimes worshipped) by criminals such as money launderers, smugglers, and drug traffickers, particularly in the United States and Latin America. [1]

  4. Gwynllyw - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynllyw

    One tradition asserts that this background meant Gwynllyw was the patron saint of choice for Welsh pirates and smugglers including Sir Henry Morgan. Certainly the many sailors based in Newport would have known of him. Another local story claims that Gwynllyw forcibly baptised the population of Gwynllwg by the sword. [11]

  5. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_patron_saints_by...

    Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [26] Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes, [5] Cuthbert, Cuthman, Dominic of Silos, Drogo of Sebourg, George, Germaine Cousin, Julian the Hospitaller, Raphael the Archangel, Regina, Solange; Shoemakers - Crispin, Gangulphus, Peter the Apostle, Theobald of Provins; Shorthand writers ...

  6. Patron saints of places - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saints_of_places

    Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]

  7. Peter Claver - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Claver

    Peter Claver SJ (Spanish: Pedro Claver y Corberó; 26 June 1580 – 8 September 1654) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú, Spain, who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of slaves, Colombia, and ministry to African Americans.

  8. Benedict Joseph Labre - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Joseph_Labre

    Benedict Joseph Labre, TOSF (French: Benoît-Joseph Labre, 25 March 1748 – 16 April 1783) was a French Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint.Labre was from a well-to-do family near Arras, France.

  9. Margaret of Cortona - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Cortona

    Margaret of Cortona (1247 – 22 February 1297) was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of Saint Francis.She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona.She was canonised in 1728.