English-Portuguese translations for patron saint

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  • padroeiroE se o esquecermos, São Jorge, o nosso santo padroeiro comum, lá estará para no-lo recordar. If we forget, our mutual patron saint, São Jorge, is there to remind us. Este é o dia escolhido por muitos países da União Europeia para comemorar o seu santo padroeiro. This is the day chosen by many countries of the European Union as the feast day of their patron saint. Brígida é também um dos três santos que o Papa designou padroeiros da Europa. Birgitta has also been chosen by the Pope as one of the three patron saints of Europe.
  • patronoSchuman escreveu uma vez, num texto que não era de carácter político, que um santo de origem irlandesa, São Columbano, "é o santo patrono de todos os que querem construir uma Europa unida" . He once wrote, outside the political domain, that a certain saint of Irish extraction - Saint Columbanus - "is the patron saint of those who seek to construct a united Europe".

Definition of patron saint

Examples

  • St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland; St. Isidore is the patron saint of software engineers; and St. Anthony is the patron saint of travelers and finding lost things
  • Janet is the patron saint of procrastination. Im thinking of erecting her a shrine of doughnut boxes in the breakroom

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