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[1] [6] [9] She is the patron saint of Bohemia, of difficult marriages, and of those who are ridiculed for their piety. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Her feast day is 1 January, [ 9 ] however as of 2019, the Order of Preachers celebrates her feast day on 4 January instead.
The Patron Saint of Liars is a 1992 novel, written by Ann Patchett. This is the first novel published by Patchett, and it was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. [ 1 ] Patchett completed the manuscript for The Patron Saint of Liars during a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. [ 2 ]
Not much is known about her beyond that she had a fiery temperament. It is known that Leocadia had an unhappy marriage with a jeweller, Isidore Weiss, but had been separated from him since 1811 after he had accused her of "illicit conduct". She had two children before that time and bore a third, Rosario, in 1814 when she was 26.
Blaise is a saint in the Catholic, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February.
Wilgefortis (Portuguese: Vilgeforte) is a female folk saint whose legend arose in the 14th century, [4] and whose distinguishing feature is a large beard. According to the legend of her life, set in Portugal and Galicia, she was a teenage noblewoman who had been promised in marriage by her father to a Moorish king. To thwart the unwanted ...
Venantius of Camerino (Italian: San Venanzio, also known as Saint Wigand) (died 18 May 251 or 253) is the patron saint of Camerino, Italy and Raiano, Italy. Christian tradition holds that he was a 15-year-old who was tortured, and martyred by decapitation at Camerino during the persecutions of Decius. Martyred with him were 10 other Christians ...
Divorced people, difficult marriages, victims of abuse; adultery; unfaithfulness, widows; Hospice Movement Fabiola ( Italian : Santa Fabiola , also known as Fabiola of Rome ) [ 1 ] was a physician and Roman matron of rank of the company of noble Roman women who, under the influence of the Church Father Jerome , gave up all earthly pleasures and ...
Adelaide of Italy (German: Adelheid; 931 – 16 December 999 AD), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was Holy Roman Empress by marriage to Emperor Otto the Great. She was crowned with him by Pope John XII in Rome on 2 February 962. She was the first empress designated consors regni, denoting a "co-bearer of royalty" who shared power with her ...