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 (French pronunciation: [ɡin.fɔʁ]) 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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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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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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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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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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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...
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A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental...
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