Saints

Database of Dutch Patron Saints in the year 1959

Database of Dutch Patron Saints in the year 1959. This database contains basic information on the veneration of some of the many patron saints in the Netherlands and Flanders around the year 1959. It concerns Catholic saints whose 'protection force' extends over eight so-called patronages (goals, see below). Such patron saints are invoked to protect people, animals or crops from diseases or to prevent bad weather; or they are invoked to cure people from diseases or to protect crops for the consequences of bad weather.

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