All 10 Uses
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Angela's Ashes
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- There is my grandmother in the bed heaving and gasping with the labor pains, praying to St. Gerard Majella, patron saint of expectant mothers.†
Chpt 1patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
- My grandmother switches her prayers to St. Ann, patron saint of difficult labor.†
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- Nurse O'Halloran tells my grandmother, Pray to St. Jude, patron saint of desperate cases.†
Chpt 1
- St. Jude, patron of desperate cases, help me.†
Chpt 1
- Angela wanted to give him a middle name, Munchin, after the patron saint of Limerick but Malachy said over his dead body.†
Chpt 1 *patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
- He's my favorite saint, patron of desperate cases.†
Chpt 2
- They hit you if you don't know why God made the world, if you don't know the patron saint of Limerick, if you can't recite the Apostles' Creed, if you can't add nineteen to forty-seven, if you can't subtract nineteen from forty-seven, if you don't know the chief towns and products of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, if you can't find Bulgaria on the wall map of the world that's blotted with spit, snot, and blobs of ink thrown by angry pupils expelled forever.†
Chpt 2patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
- That's your patron, St. Francis of Assisi, and do you know what today is?†
Chpt 6
- He's sure St. Jude pulled me through the crisis because he's the patron saint of desperate cases and I was indeed a desperate case.†
Chpt 8patron saint = saint who supports or looks after
- I'm telling you, as sure as God made little apples, that if I get up from this table you'll be calling for your patron saint.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(patron as in: a patron of the arts) a regular customer; or someone who gives money or support to an organization, cause, or person
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(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.