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  2. Brigid of Kildare - Wikipedia

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    Among the most ancient accounts of St Brigid are two Old Irish hymns; the first by St Ultan of Ardbraccan (died c. 657), Brigit Bé Bithmaith ('Brigid ever-excellent woman') also known as "Ultan's hymn", [15] and the second is "Broccán's hymn", composed by St Broccán Clóen (died c. 650) at the request of Ultan who was his tutor. [16]

  3. Ivo of Kermartin - Wikipedia

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    St Ivo Giving Alms to the Poor by Josse van der Baren. John Wigmore retells the famous story of St. Ives and the Widow of Tours, writing in the Fordham Law Review in 1936: [4] Tours was near Orleans; the bishop held his court there; and Ivo, while visiting the court, lodged with a certain widow. One day he found his widow-landlady in tears.

  4. Wilgefortis - Wikipedia

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    Wilgefortis (Portuguese: Vilgeforte) is a female folk saint whose legend arose in the 14th century, [4] and whose distinguishing feature is a large beard. According to the legend of her life, set in Portugal and Galicia, she was a teenage noblewoman who had been promised in marriage by her father to a Moorish king. To thwart the unwanted ...

  5. The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Poussin) - Wikipedia

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    The composition of eight figures, representing the Virgin Mary, clothed in red vest and a blue mantle, seated on the viewer's left, bending and holding the Christ child on her knee, while he places a ring on the finger of Saint Catherine: behind is an angel bearing a sword, the instrument of her martyrdom; and on the right are two other angels witnessing the mystical union of Jesus and the Saint.

  6. Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Wikipedia

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    The saint's feast is celebrated in the places dedicated to him. [ 6 ] Also associated with Our Lady of Carmel was a papal bull saying that there was a Sabbatine privilege associated with devotion to the saint; that is, until the late 1970s, the Catholic liturgy for that day mentioned the scapular devotion.

  7. Photios I of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Confirmation that Photios was rehabilitated comes upon his death: according to some chronicles, his body was permitted to be buried in Constantinople. In addition, according to the anti-Photian biographer of Ignatius, partisans of the ex-patriarch after his death endeavored to claim for him the "honor of sainthood".

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  9. Margaret the Virgin - Wikipedia

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    Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July (Julian calendar) by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and on Epip 23 and Hathor 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church.