Talk:Patron saints of places

message: Joseph is not patron of Croatia as a country, but Croatians as people. Please see Catholic Online: Patron Saints. --€ro 12:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saint Joseph 

message: I'm not sure about this last of national patron saints. St George is the patron saint of England, but Saints Edmund the Martyr and Edward the Confessor are also listed. These are English saints, but I don't believe they are patron saints of England. Anyone know better? 137.138.46.155 06:56, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  National patron saints 

message: It seems that this would be a significantly more user-friendly page if the order was reversed - places listed first, alphabetically. It is much more likely that a reader will be seeking to know the patron of a particular place than to know the place of which one is the patron. Irish Melkite 10:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I had to do a search for some countries, and I didn't notice until later that each country's name appears more than once.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of saints 

message: Back in 1996 I visited an art gallery in Brugges, Belgium which had a painting titled "The skinning alive of Saint Vilnius". It was pretty horrific and I always wondered who he was and what he had done to warrant that kind of treatment. Found no record of him on the internet.  Apparently Vilnius is a place. Is there a connection? 129.78.64.102 (talk) 02:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saint Vilnius 

message: Canada is listed as having mutiple patron saints.  That's plausible but, the question is which church is making this proclamation the RCs, Anglicans, Orthodox? Without sources it's imposible to know. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 17:28, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada 

message: To the joker who added a  tag to Patrick's patronage over Ireland, may I kindly reäcquaint you with WP:BLUE.  — LlywelynII 10:50, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Saint Patrick [citation needed]

message: This was haphazard, so lemme give my two cents here:
* We should not just leave it at "Our Lady of..." The actual saint here is Mary, in reference to some icon, miracle site, or cult.
* We should link all the names so that people don't have to CTRL+F to find the other instance that has the link they're trying to use
* We should pipe out the "Saint" from our links (Joseph, not Saint Joseph) since they're all saints.
* We should not pipe out the locations (Brigid of Ireland, not Brigid), even when they are locally known without a loconym.
* We should use John the Greater and John the Less since no one but our editors, the Welsh, and the Icelandings call them "X son of Y".
* Michael the Archangel, not Michael or Micael (archangel)
 — LlywelynII 14:11, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting names

message: Finished rebuilding the basic page (y'll're welcome), but it is (of course) still a mess. Two main points are
* It should be more obvious who the main patrons are
* It should be more obvious which tradition is being followed (or the page should be cleaned up and moved to Catholic patron saints of places)
A minor annoyance is all the repetition of, e.g., Joseph in East Asia and Cyril & Co. in Slavic Europe.
I think the solution would be a series of tables where:
:| 1 = place name
:| 2 = principal saint (w/some small allowance for multiples in places like France or with clarification if the Orthodox and Catholic saints differ or the saint changed in a location during the Reformation.) 
:| 3 = feast day
:| 4 = an explanation of their patronage
:| 5 = other saints (w/links & no real details)
The different traditions (Orthodox/Catholic/Monophysite/etc.) could be color coded where they differ; place-names could (maybe?) be similarly use a color coded to cluster them into regions of patronage for people like Joseph and Cyril so that they only show up if their cult actually is the single largest one in a place (Doesn't work w/George since he's not really regional). If they aren't, the regional cult could be understood from the placement or color and we don't have to keep repeating the names in the "other saints" section.
Anyone have some free time? — LlywelynII 13:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
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