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    Since they are saints of the "folk", or the populus, they are also called popular saints. Like officially recognized saints, folk saints are considered...
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    Saint Guinefort (modern French pronunciation: [ɡinfɔʁ]) was a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Guinefort's...
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    In China, folk Protestantism had its origins with the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese folk religion, folk Christianity, folk Hinduism, and folk Islam are examples...
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    as in the Catholic faith, or by popular acclamation (see folk saint). The English word saint comes from the Latin sanctus, with the Greek equivalent being...
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    offspring to livestock". Many are legitimate saints who acquired their priapic attributes through the process of folk etymology. Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803)...
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    Santa Muerte (redirect from Saint Death)
    Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism.: 296–297  A personification...
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    Narco-saints (Spanish: Narcosantos) are Catholic Saints and folk saints that are venerated (or sometimes worshipped) by criminals such as money launderers...
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    A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental...
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    Maximón (category Folk saints)
    (/ˌmæʃɪˈmoʊn, -ˈmɒn/), also called San Simón, is a Maya deity, narco-saint, and folk saint, represented in various forms by the Maya peoples of several towns...
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    Jesús Malverde (category Folk saints)
    have stolen from the rich to give to the poor. He is celebrated as a folk saint by some in Mexico and the United States, including among drug traffickers...
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