Since they are saints of the "folk", or the populus, they are also called popular saints. Like officially recognized saints, folk saints are considered...

Saint Guinefort (French pronunciation: [ɡin.fɔʁ]) was a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Guinefort's...

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...

In China, folk Protestantism had its origins with the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese folk religion, folk Christianity, folk Hinduism, and folk Islam are examples...

Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism.: 296–297  A personification...

Narco-saints (Spanish: Narcosantos) are Catholic Saints and folk saints that are venerated (or sometimes worshipped) by criminals such as money launderers...

offspring to livestock". Many are legitimate saints who acquired their priapic attributes through the process of folk etymology. Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803)...

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...

and saint Joan of Arc is a national hero in France. Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland" Davy Crockett, an American folk hero...

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental...