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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 ...
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
For protection against the dangers of the sea - Wulfram of Sens; Against sepsis - John Henry Newman; The sick, asthma sufferers, nurses and carers - Bernadette; Those who serve the sick - Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [25] Skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire - Anthony; Skin diseases, victims of child abuse - Germaine Cousin
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 ...
Olivia or Livia Pietrantoni was born on 27 March 1864 in Pozzaglia Sabina, about 50 kilometres north-east of Rome, as the second of eleven children to the poor farmers Francesco Pietrantoni and Caterina Costantini. [1] She received her Confirmation in 1868 and then made her First Communion just under a decade later in 1876. [2]
Saint Patrick, woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. In Christianity, certain deceased Christians are recognized as saints, including some from Ireland.The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent.
During her “Guts” world tour stop in St. Louis, Mo., on March 13, Olivia Rodrigo partnered with the Missouri Abortion Fund to distribute condoms and boxes of Julie, a brand of the morning ...
Honoratus of Amiens is the patron saint of bakers and confectioners. A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. [1] [2]