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Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, [3] [4] while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily [5] [6] is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian ...
The church has two portals: the main one overlooks piazza Ciullo, while the other one, with the statue of Saint Olivia on it, faces Corso 6 Aprile. Initially, there was a main portal dating back to 1572, [ 1 ] but after the acquisition of some funds in connection with the Great Jubilee , both doors were replaced by two golden bronze ones ...
Saint Oliva (or Olivia) (†138) was martyred under Hadrian; her relics are venerated at Saint Afra's Church, Brescia. Her feast day is 5 March. External links
A saint may be designated as a patron saint of a particular cause, profession, or locale, or invoked as a protector against specific illnesses or disasters, sometimes by popular custom and sometimes by official declarations of the church. [24] Saints are not believed to have power of their own, but only that granted by God.
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
More broadly, the 1620s, the entirety of Spain (Castile and beyond) debated who should be the country's patron saint; the choices were either the current patron, James Matamoros, or a pairing of him and the newly canonised Saint Teresa of Ávila. Teresa's promoters said Spain faced newer challenges, especially the threat of Protestantism and ...
John of Kronstadt, patron saint of St Petersburg, mystic and religious writer; John of Moscow, fool-for-Christ and wonderworker [citation needed] of Moscow during the reign of Boris Godunov; John of Novgorod, highly venerated 12th-century Archbishop of Novgorod; John of Pskov, a hermit living in Pskov at the turn of the 16th to 17th century
Prophet, writer of the Book of Isaiah [368] Isaiah of Gaza: 491 3 July Desert Father, Venerable, a.k.a. Isaiah the Solitary, Isaias the Solitary, Abba Isaiah, and possibly also Isaiah of Scetis [369] Isaiah of Rostov: 1090 15 May Bishop of Rostov, Venerable, Wonderworker [370] Isidora of Tabenna: c. 365: 10 May Venerable, Fool for Christ ...