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Some of us are believed to be closer to the divine than others. In Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and some forms of Protestantism, these special people are called "saints" and they can be called upon to intercede and/or create miracles on our behalf. The process of being named a saint is canonization (or, in some branches of Orthodox Christianity, glorification), a long and complicated process. Note that canonization does not make one a saint, as only God can do that. Canonization is merely the process by which the Church recognizes that a person has become a saint. Many saints may exist who have not been canonized. In fact, Orthodoxy defines a saint as anyone who was accepted by God into Heavennote that's why the Roman Catholic Church refers to the continued connection between you and your loved ones who've gone on to heaven as the "Communion of Saints" but not all saints will be recognized by the living because not all saints will have miracles granted in their names by God. For more information, just look up the relevant keyword(s) on The Other Wiki. Note that Catholics and Orthodox do not offer "worship" (latria) to the saints; what the saints receive is doulia or "honor" — or, in the case of the Queen of the Saints, the Blessed Virgin Mary, hyperdoulia or "extreme honor". One does not pray to the saints but rather asks them to pray for you. Roman Catholic theology calls this intercession: Being the Boss of Heaven, only God has the power to grant prayer requests, but one can ask a saint in heaven to lend his assistance in expediting the process. Apparently, Heaven still has a lot to work on fixing red tape within the Celestial Bureaucracy. For some of the most commonly referenced Saints in fiction, see Patron Saints. Real-life examples should be put there. In fiction, often treated as the monotheistic equivalent of Odd Job Gods. |
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In Cell, by Stephen King, Denise successfully helps Clay find a necessary item by invoking St. Anthony of Padua's helpnote Because of his phenomenal memory, his fellow Franciscan monks used to rely on him to help them find things they'd misplaced. As a saint, he's popular as a finder of lost people, material things and even spiritual or emotional states. Clay himself borrows this idea at the ending. | |
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In Hellboy: The Nature of the Beast, St. Leonard the Hermit and his slaying of the St. Leonard Worm are alluded to when the eponymous Hellboy fights a similar creature, and just like in the legends, Hellboy's blood also causes flowers to spring up from the earth. Later, in Box Full of Evil, St. Dunstan is mentioned, and his image used, in connection with a demon he had defeated and imprisoned centuries earlier. | |
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There are a couple of references in The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett to St Eric, the patron saint of Real Cats. The book's theory that Cats Found in Lorries are all the same cat, who is trying to get somewhere, goes on to suggest that it might be a feline Wandering Jew, cursed by Eric to "go away and never come back" after he tripped over it. In the chapter speculating about cats being bred for the same roles as dogs, the St Eric is the counterpart to the St Bernard. (There's a real St Eric, but he was a 12th-century Swedish king, while the one in the book was a 4th century Greek bishop.) | |
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In one episode, House shows his vast knowledge about patron saints when he spots a Saint Nicholas medallion on a female patient : | |
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MythBusters: The Busters consider MacGyver their patron saint. Brought up in an earlier episode, where Adam shows the proper procedure for making a ballistics gel dummy (after showing an even earlier attempt which he'd screwed up). While waiting for the dummy to set, Adam suggested: |
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Shakedown Shenanigans: Before piloting the Bajor out of drydock for the shakedown cruise, Lieutenant Park Jin-Soo kisses a medallion of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, the patron saint of pilots and astronauts in real life. | |
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Darklands has the saints, and their areas of expertise, as the foundation of their magic system based on prayer. | |
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In the Harry Potter series, the Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is under the patronage of Saint Mungo, who, despite his peculiar name, is an honest-to-God patron saint from Scotland, also known as Saint Kentigern (c.550-612). | |
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Dante is put on his journey through The Divine Comedy by two female saints, the historical Lucia and Dante's idealized version of Beatrice, a frequent subject of his love poetry. Beatrice is more directly involved in Dante's journey when she sends Virgil to get Dante and then guides the poet by herself through Heaven, but she only intervenes at all because Saint Lucia informed her of how far Dante had strayed. Plus, Lucia at one point carries Dante through Purgatory to speed up his lengthy trek. | |
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According to Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle, Agatha's paternal grandmother, for her act of raising the Heterodyne Boys to be heroes rather than monsters like everyone else in their family, eventually killing her husband to save them and being killed by Castle Heterodyne in return, was canonized as the patron saint of Those Who Have To Put Up With Sparks. | |
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This is Spın̈al Tap: David St. Hubbins' surname is said to be derived from the patron saint of quality footwear.note Ss. Crispin and Crispian in real life, but Rule of Funny reigns here. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In the Book of Exalted Deeds, sainthood is something a character can earn in-game. By the standards of the book, it's ridiculously hard to earn in-game (easier if you're starting high level and can write the requirements into your backstory). | |
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The Song of Bernadette is about St. Bernadette Soubirous and her visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes. She's the patron saint of sick and poverty-stricken people. There is a running gag about St. Christopher medals toward the end of the film. | |
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In Squid Row, Randi buys a statue of St. Luke, patron of artists, and buries it in her houseplant. | |
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In Silent Hill: Promise the protagonist Vanessa swears by an increasing number of saints, in different situations. | |
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Every episode of The Hidden Almanac discusses a saint whose feastday it currently is. All of them are fictional, some more fantastical than others, and a few are references to celebrities or historical personages of the real world. | |
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The Speaker for the Dead branch of Orson Scott Card's Enderverse includes the Order of the Children of the Mind of Christ (married but celibate monks who run schools on most Catholic colonies). It was founded by St. Angelo of Moctezuma (who in traditional Church logic would therefore be the Order's patron saint), an eccentric monk whose death Andrew had spoken 2000 years before the events of Speaker for the Dead. | |
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Saint Francis (and Jesuit monks in particular) are posited as the origin of the Kappa myth in the author's notes of Hell Teacher Nube. | |
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In The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès) is lost in the French countryside with his car being turned over on his boat on a river and with his Jewish driver Salomon (who just got fired) leaving him there. He prays to Saint Anthony of Padua in order to find a tow truck and a drivernote Good choice - Anthony is the saint of finding things, and also the saint of miracles, as he did so many in his lifetime (a Catholic one, specifically), then bumps into a building with lights on and thanks the saint. | |
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During an episode of 30 Rock, Jack is having a fight with his devoutly Catholic girlfriend Elisa (played by Selma Hayek) while in a church. | |
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Indiana Jones is often referred to as the patron saint of player characters: "I don't know, I'm making this up as I go!" | |
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Like Joan of Arcadia, Wonderfalls was inspired by Joan of Arc's story. | |
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In Space Cadet (Heinlein), when persuading the hero that an apparent accident was a real one and not a put-on job to scare the candidates, someone asks him whether he has ever heard of St. Barbara, explains that she is the patron of those in dangerous occupations, and tells him that if he goes to the chapel dedicated to her, he will find that the priest is saying Mass for those who died in the accident. This convinces him. | |
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On Orange Is the New Black, Gloria practices Santeria, which she describes as "Catholic plus." Her backstory involves a prayer to St. Anthony of Padua and a fire that destroyed her abusive boyfriend. | |
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Roommates and its 'versenote Girls Next Door, Down the Street, Superintendent, Meanwhile Upstairs etc. has the Saint Jude university, where most of the cast works or studies. Kinda fitting how much concentrated fail the place has, beginning with the main characters, who are mostly antagonists from different stories trying to begin a new, more normal life. Lost Causes indeed. Also Javert tells James to "Go St. George on" the dragon here. | |
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There are loads of saints in Millions because the protagonist is a bit obsessed with them. | |
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The Whiskey Vault: Invoked as the title given to the people who are the next step up from "Magnificent Bastard" in their contributions of whiskies to the show. Rex and Daniel will announce them with a sing-songy "[X], you patron saint of whiskey!", a cheesy graphic will appear, and they will do something silly like Daniel circling in place while clinking his glass against the bottle for a bell-like tone. | |
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We ourselves have designated Godzilla as the Patron Saint of Collateral Damage. | |
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Joan of Arcadia is a Whole-Plot Reference to Joan of Arc. | |
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Life on Mars: Sam Tyler (who may or not be a time traveler) wears a St. Christopher medal. And appropriately enough, Gene Hunt (the copper to end all coppers) wears a St. Michael medal. |
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A heavily fictionalized St. George is the hero of the first book of The Faerie Queene. | |
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The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima is about Mary's visitations in Portugal to Lucia Santos and her cousins, now St. Francisco and Waif Prophet St. Jacinta Marto. Canonized on May 13, 2017, they are the youngest saints other than some of the early Christian martyrs.note Lucia lived to be 97 and wrote many books, articles, diaries and letters, so examining her life to be sure she qualifies as a named, recognized saint is obviously going to take a little time. | |
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TV Tropes: There is a Patron Saint of Television, Saint Clare of Assisi, and Saint Isidore, Patron Saint of the Internet. Also, "X show is the patron saint of this trope", to the delight of some and the despair of others. A patron saint of our Wiki would be probably named Saint-Tropez. We already gave that role to Joss Whedon. We ourselves have designated Godzilla as the Patron Saint of Collateral Damage. |
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Alton Brown regarded MacGyver as his patron saint first, in a 2001 episode of Good Eats, "Where There's Smoke, There's Fish." (he constructed a fish smoker out of a cardboard box... go figure.) | |
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Simon Templar in The Saint (1997) takes all of his aliases from the names of saints, including Martin De Porres, Bruno Hartenfaust, and Thomas More. He also references some of the things necessary for a person to be considered a saint (a few steps are left out, either as a result of carelessness or Rule of Drama), and manages at least the "three miracles" part. | |
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Leverage: Saint Nicholas' other patronage (that of thieves — more accurately, repentant thieves) is mentioned, where Sophie tells Parker (who is only aware of the Santa Claus version) that St. Nick is also the patron saint of thieves. Nathan is also handed a Brigid (female patron of Ireland) medal in one episode. |
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A Prairie Home Companion: At Lake Wobegon, the annual blessing of the animals on St. Francis's feast is a trial for the priest, who is allergic to animals. Not to mention the Catholic church in Lake Wobegon is named Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility. |
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A St. Christopher statue in a car turned into a plot point in Crash. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Imperial Cult, which is really just Catholicism IN SPACE! has numerous saints, one of the more famous being Saint Sabbat, and Ollanius Pius, patron saint of Guardsmen.note Ironically, Ollanius himself actually was Catholic, or at least practiced a Catholic-descended religion; the last surviving practitioner, in fact Living Saints are also sometimes produced by the Sisters of Battle. The God-Emperor may or may not have been Saint George. |
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A supplement for Shadowrun mentioned how religion mixed with all the magic wandering around, especially shamanic stuff. The main shamanic influence is Native American, but that doesn't leave the Christians out. Shamans even have them available as variations of totems. | |
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Angels in the Outfield (the original version) has St. Gabriel's Home For Orphan Girls. He's got a good-sized statue in the reception area and the little visionary Bridget says "He's our patron saint." | |
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In the Hellboy film, a statue of St. Dionysius was used as a prison for the monster Sammael, and later a finger bone of St. Jude is used to ward off the same monster. | |
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The first act of A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on the canonization of the title character, a Jewish technician who became a Roman Catholic and founded an order of monks to recover lost knowledge After the End. In time, with the re-emergence of technology, St. Leibowitz becomes patron saint of electricians. There is also a reference to Saint Raul the Cyclopean, patron of mutants. Precisely why they have one of these instead of adding mutants to the remit of the patron saint/s of people with birth defects is not enlarged upon, but may have something to do with the Fantastic Racism against mutants that the Church has forcibly come out against. | |
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Brought up in an earlier episode, where Adam shows the proper procedure for making a ballistics gel dummy (after showing an even earlier attempt which he'd screwed up). While waiting for the dummy to set, Adam suggested: | |
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In Hell On Earth, the Templars have their own pantheon of Patron Saints (that includes, among others, St. John Wayne and St. Eliot Ness). | |
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In the Rivers of London novel The Hanging Tree, Peter prays to the patron saint of policemen, Sir Samuel. | |
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The (self-proclaimed) patron saint of the denial, American Idiot's St. Jimmy.* And don't wear it out! | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the villains celebrate the Night of St. Vigeous, the patron saint of vampires. Since vampires are basically Always Chaotic Evil, one has to wonder why the church approved of that one. | |
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In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero's Daughter trilogy, Logistilla's home is on the island of St. Dismas. | |
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In The Librarians, the Saint of Thieves is a supernatural entity that is the brother of Santa Claus (possibly a reference to St. Nicholas being both). There's plenty of Sibling Rivalry between them. The former even has a holiday celebrated by thieves around the world — Thankstaking. He also has power over thieves, such as Compelling Voice. | |
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Ars Magica being set in Europe circa 1220, there are a number of active Saints (most notably Francis of Assisi). Furthermore, two supplements, "Realms of Power: The Divine" and "The Church", include rules for allowing players to petition their Patron Saint (or any other) for aid by expending Faith. | |
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The Busters consider MacGyver their patron saint. | |
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inFAMOUS 2: In the Good Ending, Cole is revered as one by the citizens of New Marais | |
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The aforementioned St. Vidicon is referenced in the 1632-verse. Despite being fictional in-universe, he is venerated (due to the circumstances of his martyrdom) by radio technicians as the holy helper against the ravages of Murphy, half in earnest and half as an in-universe lampshading/jab at up-time Catholics who continue to venerate saints who are either still alive in down-time or, For Want Of A Nail, will never be born. When three radio techs petition the local cardinal for permission to found a holy order dedicated to St. Vidicon, he is less than amused. | |
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The town of Tassing in Pentiment has two: a former Roman legionary, St. Moritz, and a local peasant woman, St. Tasia, both of whom converted from paganism early in the history of Christendom. A shrine at the monastery hosts a relic purported to be Moritz's arm, and attracts many pilgrims. | |
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