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saint
noun[ C ]
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a holy person, esp. one who has been officially honored with this title by a Christian church:
Elizabeth Seton was the first person born in the US to be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
A saint is also a good, kind, and patient person:
His mother was a saint to everyone who knew her.

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These dynasties achieved a great success in popularising their saints but ultimately at the cost of the complete transformation of the saints themselves.
Just as the subtitles of these chapters illuminate the real voices of saints, so do the words within the text.
Cures attributed to saints were capable of naturalistic explanation, but they were not rendered innocuous by this means.
The items dealing with specific aspects of the life of the saint, however, look as though their melodies might be original.
Also, while the authors excelled in drawing similarities between religious and popular saints, some engagement with the differences or difficulties of the relationship was lacking.
They likewise acquired distinctively civic overtones as cathedral clerics employed them in honour of local patron saints.
Events observed included life-cycle (weddings, communions), ritual-cycle (saints' days), and school events (conferences, rallies, local and statewide meetings, parades).
Pilgrimages were directed towards these cities and towards the burial places of saints and their relics.
Largely owing to this deft intertwining of popular and clerical elements, the collection, one of many such lives of saints, gained immediate and enduring popularity.
Chapter 3 addresses the dates and manner of celebrating the saints' feasts, as well as the various manifestations of personal devotion to saints.
Relics embodied the saint in this world and gave patronage to the community that preserved them.
The saint intones a church theme that, in proper liturgical usage, could well have been sung on the saint's own feast day.
This practice went further than merely choosing a saint randomly from the religious calendar.
In the contemporary calendar at the end of the manuscript many more saints are included, accompanied by chant-text incipits.
On saint-day celebrations (mawlids) and other festive occasions, public recitations make the poetry available to a larger audience.
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