Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian sufferings Apollonia was sainted. Still popular, she gives her name today to many a Catholic in eastern Europe, such as Polish Actress Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chalupec. But her greatest popularity springs from the fact that she has become a patron saint of dentists.* Last week, to show that it had not waned, no less than 500 French dentists made a pilgrimage on St. Apollonia's feast day to one of her chief shrines, at La Gaude near Nice. In the parish church which contains her statue the dentists attended mass, then made merry in the village...
Equally pious was an act reported last week from India. The Safety First Association sponsored the unveiling of a statue of St. Christopher, patron of travelers, in one of Bombay's biggest bus stations...
...Patron saints of physicians & surgeons are SS. Cosmas & Damian; of nurses, St. A.catha; of throat ailments, St. Blaise...
...liking than being the first lady of New Mexico. The finance of the liberal, she allows herself, to put it mildly, to be seduced by the communist. Since, however, the latter has made no promises either to her or to the liberal, who was once his best friend and patron, neither can censure him for treachery when he walks off to keep himself unattached. Her end, and that of the liberal, are thus close of tragic...
...sons of harmony sent a petition, That he their inspirer and patron would be, When this answer arriv'd from the jolly old Grecian