patron saint

saint regarded as the tutelary spirit or heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person
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patron saint

Summary

patron saint is a canonization status[1]. It draws 991 Wikipedia views per month (canonization_status category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • patron saint's image is recorded as Europe Patron saints Mosaic.jpg[3].
  • patron saint's instance of is recorded as canonization status[4].
  • patronus is named after patron saint[5].
  • patron saint's GND ID is recorded as 4077223-8[6].
  • patron saint's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85025135[7].
  • patron saint's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11968790r[8].
  • patron saint's subclass of is recorded as Christian saint[9].
  • patron saint's subclass of is recorded as tutelary spirit[10].
  • patron saint's part of is recorded as The festival of the Santísima Trinidad del Señor Jesús del Gran Poder in the city of La Paz[11].
  • patron saint's Commons category is recorded as Patron saints[12].
  • patron saint's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 16917[13].
  • patron saint's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0htxr[14].
  • patron saint's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph135290[15].
  • patron saint's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph723620[16].
  • patron saint's feast day is recorded as patronal festival[17].
  • patron saint's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Patron saints[18].
  • patron saint's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX537384[19].
  • patron saint's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 270.092[20].
  • patron saint's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[21].
  • patron saint's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • patron saint's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[23].
  • patron saint's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/patron-saint[24].
  • patron saint's BBC Things ID is recorded as 6ab2d24f-9ec9-4ce6-8720-57d686483edc[25].
  • patron saint's main Wikidata property is recorded as P417[26].
  • patron saint's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'sainte patronne'}[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for patron saint include Order of Saint Mark[28], an order of chivalry[29], in Republic of Venice[30], founded in 0787[31].

Why It Matters

patron saint draws 991 Wikipedia views per month (canonization_status category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include Order of Saint Mark[28], an order of chivalry[29], in Republic of Venice[30], founded in 0787[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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