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(Encyclopedia) Leo the Great, Saint: see Leo I, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Frances Xavier Cabrini, Saint: see Cabrini, Saint Frances Xavier. ...

(Encyclopedia) Francis of Sales, Saint: see Francis de Sales, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Christopher and Nevis: see Saint Kitts and Nevis. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Geoffroy: see Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bruno the Great, Saint: see Bruno, Saint (d. 965). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence or Laurence, Saint, d. 258, Roman deacon and martyr. According to legend he was roasted to death on a gridiron. The Latin Fathers praise him in their writings for his role in the conversion o...

(Encyclopedia) Cyril of Jersualem, Saint: see Cyril, Saint (St. Cyril of Jerusalem). ...

(Encyclopedia) Nicholas, Saint, patron of children and sailors, of Greece, Sicily, and Russia, and of many other places and persons. Little is known of him, but he is traditionally identified as a 4th-century bishop...

(Encyclopedia) Polycarp, Saint pŏlˈĭkärp [key], c.a.d. 70–a.d. 156?, Greek bishop of Smyrna, Father of the Church. He was a disciple of St. John, who appointed him bishop. Thus he linked the apostles and such ...