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Saint Bella (Sheng Bella / Beikang International)
Saint Bella (圣贝拉), operating as Beikang International, is a Chinese high-end postpartum confinement and mother-and-baby care company founded in Hangzhou in 2017, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2025.
Saint Benedict Medal
The Saint Benedict Medal is a Catholic sacramental showing St. Benedict and a cross whose initials form a Latin exorcism prayer, approved in the 1740s.
Saint Blaise (Սուրբ Վլասի)
Saint Blaise, also known as Blaise of Sebaste (Sourp Vlas), was a bishop of Sebaste in Armenia martyred around 316, the patron saint of throat diseases and wool combers.
Saint Boniface
Saint Boniface, born Winfrid in Wessex around 675, was an Anglo-Saxon monk and missionary bishop known as the Apostle of the Germans; he founded Fulda and was martyred at Dokkum in Frisia in 754.
Saint Brendan's Island
Saint Brendan's Island, a phantom island of the Atlantic named for the Irish abbot Saint Brendan the Navigator, appeared on maps from the 13th to the 18th century, placed near the Canaries, west of Ireland, and later Newfoundland, inspiring expeditions until 1727.
Saint Cajetan
Saint Cajetan, also known as Gaetano di Thiene, was an Italian priest who co-founded the Theatines in 1524 and is patron saint of the unemployed.
Saint Casimir
Saint Casimir, also known as Saint Casimir Jagiellon, was a Jagiellonian prince, son of King Casimir IV of Poland, venerated as patron saint of Poland and Lithuania.
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine (St. Catherine) is Jamaica's most populous parish, 542,763 in 2022, on the south coast in Middlesex county, capital Spanish Town, founded 1534, Jamaica's capital until 1872; includes Portmore municipality and the Rio Cobre.
Saint Catherine Area
Saint Catherine Area: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2002, criteria i, iii, iv, vi) in South Sinai, Egypt, centered on the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa), sacred to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; 60,100 ha, oldest functioning Christian monastery, now threatened by a tourism megaproject.
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery, also known as the Sinai Monastery, is a Greek Orthodox monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, built under Emperor Justinian I in 548–565.
Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia (Santa Cecilia) is a Roman virgin martyr of the 2nd or 3rd century, honored on November 22 as patroness of music and musicians.
Saint Cecilia (EP)
Saint Cecilia is a free five-song 2015 EP by Foo Fighters, recorded at Austin's Hotel Saint Cecilia, dedicated to the victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks, and released November 23, 2015, with vinyl on February 19, 2016.
Saint Charles County
Saint Charles County, Missouri: county in the St. Louis metro area, organized October 1, 1812 as one of five original Missouri counties, named for St. Charles Borromeo; county seat St. Charles; 2025 population about 426,499, 3rd of 115 Missouri counties.
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher (Christophorus), legendary Christian martyr of Lycia under Decius, patron of travelers; the Christ-bearing giant of the Golden Legend, dog-headed in Eastern icons, feast removed from the universal Roman calendar in 1969.
Saint Clair County, Illinois, United States
St. Clair County, Illinois, established April 27, 1790 and named for Arthur St. Clair, is Illinois' first county; county seat Belleville, part of the St. Louis Metro-East, population about 250,708 (2025 estimate).
Saint Clair County, Michigan, United States
St. Clair County, Michigan: easternmost of Michigan's 83 counties, seat at Port Huron, organized 1821, Blue Water Area on Lake Huron and the St. Clair River bordering Ontario; 2020 population 160,383.
Saint Crispin's Day
Saint Crispin's Day is the feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, twin martyrs and patrons of shoemakers, observed on 25 October and known for the Battle of Agincourt.
Saint Croix
Saint Croix, largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands (84 sq mi, 41,004 people in 2020), a former Danish sugar colony bought by the U.S. in 1917 for $25 million, with towns Christiansted and Frederiksted.
Saint David
Saint David (Dewi Sant), also known as David of Wales, was a sixth-century abbot-bishop at Mynyw, later St Davids in Pembrokeshire, honored as the patron saint of Wales.
Saint David's Day
Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) is the feast day of Saint David, patron saint of Wales, kept on 1 March with parades, eisteddfodau, and the wearing of the leek and daffodil.
Saint Elias Mountains
Saint Elias Mountains: highest coastal mountains on Earth on the Alaska–Yukon–British Columbia border; home of Mount Logan (5,959 m), vast icefields, Yakutat terrane uplift, and rapid glacier change.
Saint Eligius
Saint Eligius, also known as Saint Eloi, was a Frankish goldsmith and royal mint master who became bishop of Noyon–Tournai in 641 and patron saint of metalworkers.
Saint Erik
Saint Erik (Erik Jedvardsson, Erik IX, died 1160) was a Swedish king killed by Magnus Henriksson and venerated as Sweden's patron saint; his relics rest in Uppsala Cathedral, and 2014-2016 bone analysis largely confirmed the 1290s legend.
Saint Etienne (band)
Saint Etienne: English indie pop trio from Croydon (Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs, Sarah Cracknell), formed 1988, named after the French football club. Debut Foxbase Alpha (1991); final album International (2025).
Saint George
Saint George, also called George the Victorious, was a Christian martyr of the early fourth century, a Roman soldier executed at Lydda around 303, famed for the dragon legend.
Saint George and the Dragon
Saint George and the Dragon: medieval legend of the soldier-saint George slaying a sacrificial dragon, added to his story in the 11th century, popularized by the Golden Legend, with roots in Perseus and Andromeda.
Saint George's Cross
Saint George's Cross, a red upright cross on white (Argent a cross gules), is the flag of England and part of the Union Flag; first recorded in English use in 1277 and tied to Genoa, the Order of the Garter, and St George.
Saint George's Day
Saint George's Day (San Jordi) is the feast day of Saint George, patron saint of England, observed on 23 April and celebrated in Catalonia with roses and books.
Saint Helena
Saint Helena: remote volcanic British Overseas Territory island in the South Atlantic, 1,200 miles from Africa; settled 1659, site of Napoleon's exile and death (1821), over 500 endemic species, airport opened 2017.
Saint Helena Airport
Saint Helena Airport is the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena's first and only airport, opened to commercial flights in October 2017 with weekly Airlink service from Johannesburg.