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Many legends are told of Saint Colman and of his holy well with its sacred ducks. In former days a large pond supplied from the well, where for ages after St. Colman's death a number of ducks were kept, which were believed to be under the saint's special protection, and on this account were regarded with affection and treated with great tenderness.
The devotion to Santa Marta de Pateros traces its roots to primeval beliefs in a water goddess. [1] Tradition recounts that in the 1800s, Saint Martha (who legendarily subdued the Tarasque), was invoked by the people of Pateros to vanquish a crocodile in the Pateros River that ate their ducks. [2]
Eligius is the patron saint of horses and cattle and is also the patron saint of goldsmiths, blacksmiths, [c] metalworkers in general, [9] numismatists/coin collectors [10] and the British Army corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME). [11]
St Cuthbert's Day is celebrated with Mass, and the school prayers include reference to their patron saint (always ending with the invocation "St Cuthbert, pray for us"). The school badge features a bishop's crook in reference to St Cuthbert's time as a bishop, as well as ducks, reflecting his love of the animals.
St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and has a long history of veneration there. [7] The cult of St Andrew was established on the east coast at Kilrymont by the Pictish kings as early as the eighth century. [8] The shrine, which from the twelfth century was said to have contained the relics of the saint brought to Scotland by Saint Regulus ...
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Saint Guy is the patron saint of Anderlecht, horned animals, bachelors, epileptics, labourers, protection of outbuildings, sheds and stables, sacristans, sextons, work horses; and is invoked against epilepsy, rabies, infantile convulsions, and mad dogs. [4]
Saint Crescentinus (Italian: San Crescentino, Crescenziano) (died June 1, 303) is the patron saint of Urbino whose feast day is celebrated on June 1. Venerated as a warrior saint , he is sometimes depicted on horseback , killing a dragon , in the same manner as Saint George .