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* ...that [[Saint Blaise]], a 4th-century bishop, is said to have healed a boy choking on a fishbone? This miracle earned him patronage over throat ailments and the tradition of [[Blessing of the Throats]]. | * ...that [[Saint Blaise]], a 4th-century bishop, is said to have healed a boy choking on a fishbone? This miracle earned him patronage over throat ailments and the tradition of [[Blessing of the Throats]]. | ||
* ...that [[Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross]], a Jewish convert, wrote philosophical works before her martyrdom at [[Auschwitz]]? Canonized in 1998, she is a patroness of [[Europe]] and converts. | * ...that [[Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross]], a Jewish convert, wrote philosophical works before her martyrdom at [[Auschwitz]]? Canonized in 1998, she is a patroness of [[Europe]] and converts. | ||
* ...that [[Saint Jerome]], translator of the | * ...that [[Saint Jerome]], translator of the Vulgate Bible, lived as a hermit in the desert with a lion as a companion? His 4th-century scholarship shaped Christian biblical studies. | ||