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(Encyclopedia) Saint Gall, former Benedictine abbey, at St. Gall, Switzerland. Originating in a cell built c.614 by St. Gall, an Irish missionary (see Columban, Saint), it became an abbey under Charles Martel (8th c...
(Encyclopedia) Loyola, Ignatius of: see Ignatius of Loyola, Saint.
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(Encyclopedia) Nepomuk, John of: see John of Nepomuk, Saint.
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(Encyclopedia) Saint Lawrence Islands National Park, 1,000 acres (405 hectares), S Ont., Canada, in the Thousand Islands; est. 1904. It includes 17 wooded Canadian islands and some adjacent mainland between Kingston...
(Encyclopedia) Bruno, Saint bro͞oˈnō [key], 925–65, German churchman and statesman; brother and chief adviser of the first Holy Roman emperor, Otto I, whose chancellor he was from c.950. He was made (953) archb...
(Encyclopedia) Saul of Tarsus: see Paul, Saint.
(Encyclopedia) Martin, Saint, c.316–397, bishop of Tours. Born a heathen in Pannonia (in modern Hungary), the son of a soldier, he became a convert and refused to fight Christians. He went (c.360) to St. Hilary of...
(Encyclopedia) Justin Martyr, Saint, c.a.d. 100–c.a.d. 165, Christian apologist, called also Justin the Philosopher. Born in Samaria of pagan parents, he studied philosophy, and after his conversion in Ephesus to ...
(Encyclopedia) Clement of Rome: see Clement I, Saint.
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(Encyclopedia) Bruno of Querfurt: see Boniface, Saint (d. 1009).
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