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(Encyclopedia) John Fisher, Saint: see Fisher, John. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Helena Island: see Sea Islands. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Mary's Island: see Banjul, Gambia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Jean, Lac, Canada: see Saguenay, river. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint John, Lake, Canada: see Saguenay, river. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thomas More, Saint: see More, Sir Thomas. ...

(Encyclopedia) Orosius, Paulus ōrōˈshēəs [key], c.385–420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian, b. Tarragona, Spain or Braga, Portugal. He went to see St. Augustine (c.413) and wrote, on request, a summ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Mark's Church, Venice, named after the tutelary saint of Venice. The original Romanesque basilical church, built in the 9th cent. as a shrine for the saint's bones, was destroyed by fire in 967....

(Encyclopedia) Rose of Lima, Saint, 1586–1617, Peruvian Dominican tertiary and mystic, the first canonized saint of the New World, patron of South America and the Philippine Islands. Despite her family's attempt t...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Albans sŭnt ôlˈbənz [key], city and district (1991 pop. 76,709), Hertfordshire, E central England. The market city of Saint Albans has printing, engineering, and clothing industries. Many of...