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Example sentences for: patron

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But Christianity eventually triumphed to achieve the strong Orthodoxy of today, and Titus became Crete’s patron saint.
Pilgrims flock from all around the island to kiss the image of the patron saint, and some ascend the final 68 steps to the church on their knees.
As family members are born, or die, their picture or a favorite personal item of theirs may be placed on the altar, along with their patron saint, a votive candle, or flowers.
When an arts patron bequeathed a quarter-million dollars to the city for a work of public art in the '80s, the fledgling arts commission invited big-city curators to jury the competition.
In lush gardens, a fine hall has been built to house the works from the collection of the Dutch painter, Rudolf Bonnet, who helped guide the Pita Maha art movement in the 1930s, and from the collection of his patron, Cokorda Gde Agung Sukawati, who governed Ubud for many decades.