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The only one whose appearance was enhanced by mourning was the church's patron saint, Sebastian, for during Holy Week the faithful were spared the sight of that body twisted in the most indecent posture, pierced by arrows, and dripping with blood and tears like a suffering homosexual, whose wounds, kept miraculously fresh by Father Restrepo's brush, made Clara tremble with disgust.†
Chpt 1

patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
Nfvea wept disconsolately and lit candles to San Antonio, patron of lost objects.†
Chpt 1
I'll wait for you if you like, patron," the man said.†
Chpt 2
I'm the patron here now.†
Chpt 2
"We understand, patron," Pedro Segundo Garcia said.†
Chpt 2
No one's going to convince me that I wasn't a good patron.†
Chpt 2
The word went out that there was a new patron at Tres Marias and that we were using mules to clear the land of stones and plow the fields to ready them for planting.†
Chpt 2
Yes, I've been a good patron; there's no doubt about it.†
Chpt 2
All that day, the patron was busy plowing a field that had just been cleared and that was slated to be planted with corn.†
Chpt 2
Before dropping her off at her hut, the patron kissed her on the lips.†
Chpt 2
Anxious to rescue in the course of a few months what had lain in ruins for years, the patron hired every man, woman, old person, and child who could stand on his own two feet.†
Chpt 2
The patron would buy things wholesale and resell them at cost to his workers.†
Chpt 2
His intuition told him that he would never have the courage to confront him face to face, because he was the patron.†
Chpt 2
The patron's arrival had changed all that, but he could not deny that they were better off now, for they no longer went hungry and they were better protected and safer.†
Chpt 2
Pancha Garcia was young and the patron was strong.†
Chpt 2
Pedro Garcia saw his patron whistling on his way to the stables and he shook his head in wonder.†
Chpt 2
In the course of the next ten years, Esteban Trueba became the most respected patron in the region.†
Chpt 2
But we will see each other, patron.†
Chpt 2
It was the one time in their lives they showed the peasants a trace of intimacy: pal this and pal that, don't worry, patron, I'm on your team, you can count on me, that's the way I like it, pal, it's nice to see you have a patriotic conscience, you know the liberals and radicals are all a bunch of morons and the Communists are atheist bastards who eat little children.†
Chpt 2
One does one's best, patron," he said, shrugging his shoulders.†
Chpt 2
Still, the patron had changed.†
Chpt 4
The women listened with embarrassed smiles, for the same reason they prayed with Ferula: so as not to displease the patrons wife.†
Chpt 4
If you'll allow me, patron, I'm going to call in my father.†
Chpt 4
He slowly dismounted, told the patron he had led the ants to the edge of the highway, and went into his house.†
Chpt 4
"I'm glad to see you, patron," she said, and it was then I recognized her, because her voice was the only thing that hadn't changed about Transito Soto.†
Chpt 4
"Thanks to your fifty pesos, patron" she replied.†
Chpt 4
What would have become of me if I had stayed at the Red Lantern, patron?†
Chpt 4
Whores are the worst, patron, believe me.†
Chpt 4
Of course, patron!†
Chpt 4
"No thanks, patron," Transito replied, caressing her snake with a lacquered fingernail.†
Chpt 4
What do we need a patron for?†
Chpt 4
That's what I said before, patron.†
Chpt 4
He was the only one who dared to speak back to the patron, despite the beatings his father gave him every time he caught him in the act.†
Chpt 4
He had only two loves, his father and the patrons daughter, whom he had loved from the day they slept together naked beneath the dining-room table, back in his early childhood.†
Chpt 4
Defeated, Pedro Garcia asked the patron for permission to take her into town on a cart.†
Chpt 4
They buried her in a special plot in the tiny graveyard alongside the abandoned church, at the foot of the volcano, because she had been the patron's wife, in a manner of speaking, since she had given him the only son who bore his name, though not his surname, and a grandson, the strange Esteban Garcia, who was destined to play a terrible role in the history of the family.†
Chpt 4
He was the only one in all Tres Marias who dared to confront the patron.†
Chpt 5
His eyes did not leave the patron's face while his velvet voice rose passionately above the soporific air of the siesta.†
Chpt 5
I like this, patron.†
Chpt 5
The young people joined in, and after an hour, when the sun was already shining on that anguished landscape, they lifted the patron from his tomb.†
Chpt 5
Pedro Garcia had a blanket brought and, between his son and his grandson, they laid the patron on it, lifted him carefully, and raised him onto an improvised table that they had set up in what was formerly the courtyard but was now no more than a small clearing in that nightmare of debris, animal corpses, crying children, moaning dogs, and praying women.†
Chpt 5
He came unwillingly, letting his father know that he was breaking his back to restore the patron's wealth while the rest of them would remain as poor as they had been before.†
Chpt 5
He looked the other way when his son, taking advantage of the patron's, injury, broke the grip of censorship and introduced into Tres Marias the forbidden pamphlets of the unionists, the teacher's political newspapers, and the strange biblical interpretations of the Spanish priest.†
Chpt 5
The tenants of Tres Marias called him "the little patron," and he was the one they turned to whenever they needed something.†
Chpt 6
He was the son of Esteban Garcia, the only bastard offspring of the patron named for him.†
Chpt 6
The child would lie awake at night imagining all sorts of dreadful illnesses and accidents that could put an end to the life of the patron and his children so that he could inherit the property.†
Chpt 6
The patron was moved by the death of the old man who had saved the crops from the plague of ants, and his life as well, and he wanted everyone to remember this funeral as a major event.†
Chpt 6
"If the patron finds out we're voting Socialist, we're done for," they said.†
Chpt 6
I don't want to be here when you find my son, patron," were the last words Pedro Segundo Garcia spoke before trotting off in the direction of the highway.†
Chpt 6
Watch out, patron.†
Chpt 6

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(1) (patron as in: a patron of the arts)
a regular customer; or someone who gives money or support to an organization, cause, or person
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In ancient Roman history, patron referred to the more powerful person in a complex client-patron relationship. The term is still used in some cultures today to describe a property owner who is in charge of workers.

Also see patron saint.

Much more rarely, a patron is the proprietor of an inn.

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