Talk:Patron saints of places

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Joseph is not patron of Croatia as a country, but Croatians as people. Please see Catholic Online: Patron Saints. --€ro 12:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure about this last of national patron saints. St George is the patron saint of England, but Saints Edmund the Martyr and Edward the Confessor are also listed. These are English saints, but I don't believe they are patron saints of England. Anyone know better? 137.138.46.155 06:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

It seems that this would be a significantly more user-friendly page if the order was reversed - places listed first, alphabetically. It is much more likely that a reader will be seeking to know the patron of a particular place than to know the place of which one is the patron. Irish Melkite 10:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I had to do a search for some countries, and I didn't notice until later that each country's name appears more than once. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Back in 1996 I visited an art gallery in Brugges, Belgium which had a painting titled "The skinning alive of Saint Vilnius". It was pretty horrific and I always wondered who he was and what he had done to warrant that kind of treatment. Found no record of him on the internet. Apparently Vilnius is a place. Is there a connection? 129.78.64.102 (talk) 02:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canada

Canada is listed as having mutiple patron saints. That's plausible but, the question is which church is making this proclamation the RCs, Anglicans, Orthodox? Without sources it's imposible to know. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 17:28, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

To answer my own question the Roman Catholics venerate George, Isaac Jogues, the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, John de Brébeuf, Joseph, Mary of the Hurons, and Our Lady of the Cape, as the patron saints of Canada. See: [1],[2], [3], [4]. I also have a source for René, but the denomination isn't specified. It should also be noted that John the Baptist is the patron saint of French Canadians, and his saint's day is a national holiday in Quebec, while Our Lady of the Assumption is the patron saint of the Acadian people.--Kevlar (talk • contribs) 17:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)