Article: Saints and cities in Medieval Italy.

Around the year 1530 an Italian humanist succinctly explained the concept of the patron saint:

We can see that by a great gift of Heaven

it has come about that every city has

been divinely allotted some saint as

guardian and protector. Rightly it

awards him honour and worship at all

times, but it has especial recourse to

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