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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the patroness of young women, philosophers and scholars, Catherine symbolizes that highest feminine quality, wisdom.
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In early religion she was worshipped as the patroness of marriage, her fecundity being petitioned with gifts of fruit and seeds.
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No high-born dames, no wealthy patroness for Miss Theodosia Kyte!
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Odile is the patroness of the knights who sought the Grail.
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Originally thought to have a beneficial effect on flocks, Hecate was once the patroness of herdsmen.
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She was reckless enough to challenge the goddess Athene, patroness of those crafts, to a contest of skill.
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Through the vicissitudes of life in a frontier province, Our Lady of Sion has remained the tutelary patroness of Lorraine.