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Bridget, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Bridget, Saint, 453?–523?, Irish holy woman. She is often called St. Brigid, St. Bride, or St. Bridget of Kildare. Little is known of her, but she did found a great monastery at Kildare. She is buri...

Mont-Saint-Jean

(Encyclopedia)Mont-Saint-Jean môN-săN-zhäN [key], village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, on a height S of Waterloo. The British resisted the French onslaught there at the end of the Waterloo campaign (...

Anne, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Anne, Saint, in tradition, mother of the Virgin and wife of St. Joachim. She is not mentioned in Scripture, but her cult is very old. In the West she has been especially popular since the Middle Ages....

Lucy, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Lucy, Saint, d. 304?, Sicilian virgin martyr. According to legend, at an early age she vowed herself to God. She rejected a pagan suitor, who then denounced her during the persecutions under Diocletia...

Little Saint Bernard

(Encyclopedia)Little Saint Bernard, pass: see Saint Bernard. ...

Mount Saint Helens

(Encyclopedia)Mount Saint Helens: see Saint Helens, Mount. ...

Saint Michel, Mont

(Encyclopedia)Saint Michel, Mont: see Mont-Saint-Michel. ...

Climax, Saint John

(Encyclopedia)Climax, Saint John: see John Climax, Saint. ...

Great Saint Bernard

(Encyclopedia)Great Saint Bernard, pass: see Saint Bernard. ...

Gregory Theologus, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Gregory Theologus, Saint: see Gregory Nazianzen, Saint. ...