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Article: Saints and cities in Medieval Italy.
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- History Today
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- July 1, 1993
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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