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Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is the 17 March feast of Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron saint, observed as a religious feast and a global cultural festival.
Saint Patrick's Saltire
Saint Patrick's Saltire, or the Cross of St Patrick, is a red diagonal cross on white, adopted 1783 for the Order of Saint Patrick and added to the Union Flag in 1801 to represent Ireland.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota: capital of Minnesota and Ramsey County seat, one of the Twin Cities. Founded 1849, city 1854; 2020 population 311,527; known for its Mississippi River setting, Dakota history, and rent control policy.
Saint Peter
Saint Peter, also known as Simon Peter, was a Galilean fisherman whom the New Testament names as the leading disciple of Jesus, and whom Catholics recognize as the first pope.
Saint Peter Port
Saint Peter Port (St Peter Port, 'Town') is the capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, a terraced east-coast harbour town with Castle Cornet, Hauteville House, an 18th-century entrepot history, and ferry links to Herm and Sark.
Saint Peter's tomb
Saint Peter's tomb, under the main altar of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, holds bones announced by Paul VI in 1968 as the apostle's; identification remains debated.
Saint Peter's University
Saint Peter's University, founded 1872 as Saint Peter's College, is a private Jesuit Catholic university in Jersey City, New Jersey, the state's only Jesuit institution, known for social mobility and value rankings.
Saint Peters, England
Saint Peters (St Peter-in-Thanet), Kent, England: a village in Broadstairs and St. Peters, Thanet District, on the Isle of Thanet, established around its circa-1080 parish church, a Limb of Dover in the Cinque Ports.
Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург)
Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург), Russia's second city on the Neva delta, founded 1703 by Peter the Great; imperial capital, siege survivor, flood-dammed metropolis of 5.65 million producing ~7.5% of Russian GDP.
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory (Санкт-Петербургская консерватория имени Римского-Корсакова), also Petrograd and Leningrad Conservatory: Russia's oldest music conservatory, founded 1862 by Anton Rubinstein; Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Heifetz, Gergiev among alumni; 1,411 students in 2025.
Saint Petersburg Dam
The Saint Petersburg Dam, or Leningrad Dam, is a 25.4 km storm surge barrier protecting Saint Petersburg from Gulf of Finland floods; completed in 2011, it is the world's longest.
Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет)
Saint Petersburg State University (СПбГУ, SPbU), founded by decree of Peter I in 1724 and revived in 1819, is Russia's first university, formerly Petrograd and Leningrad State University, with special legal status since 2009, 30,000-plus students, nine Nobel laureate alumni, and QS rank 365-390 in 2025-2027.
Saint Philip Garden
Saint Philip Garden (Ġnien San Filippu, the General's Garden) is a 17th-century two-level public garden on St Philip Bastion in Floriana, Malta, with a citrus orchard, mature trees, the 1615 Wignacourt Fountain, and part of the Malta National Botanical Garden.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) is a French overseas collectivity of 6,008 people on 242 km², 25 km off Newfoundland; an OCT outside the EU, governed by article 74, with a Territorial Council, two communes, and a fishing-to-administration economy.
Saint Piran
Saint Piran, also known as St Piran, is the patron saint of Cornwall and of tin miners, traditionally a sixth-century Irish hermit who settled at Perranzabuloe.
Saint Roch
Saint Roch, also called San Rocco, is a Catholic saint venerated as a protector against plague, remembered as a pilgrim who was fed by a dog and died in prison in Lombardy.
Saint Sarah
Saint Sarah (Sara e Kali, Sara-la-Kali, Sara the Black) is the uncanonized patron saint of the Romani people, venerated at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France, with a May 24 procession to the sea; distinct from Sarah wife of Abraham.
Saint Satine
Saint Satine (セイント・サティーン), formerly Prelude, is a pre-debut multinational girl group under HYBE x Geffen Records, announced May 12, 2026. Members Emily, Lexie, Samara, and Sakura; Lexie departed July 2026, delaying the planned 2026 debut.
Saint Sava (Свети Сава)
Saint Sava (Свети Сава), born Rastko Nemanjić, was a Nemanjić prince who became a monk on Mount Athos and the first archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church in 1219.
Saint Sebastian
Saint Sebastian was a Roman martyr of Diocletian's persecution, venerated from the fourth century at a tomb on the Via Appia and remembered as patron of plague victims, archers, and athletes.
Saint Seiya
Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢, Seinto Seiya), also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is Masami Kurumada's manga (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985, 28 volumes) and Toei Animation's 114-episode 1986–1989 TV anime, following armored Saints of Athena who fight using Cosmo.
Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢) (TV series)
Saint Seiya (聖闘士星矢), also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is Toei Animation's 1986–1989 TV anime adapting Masami Kurumada's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga: 114 episodes on TV Asahi about Saints, Athena, and constellation Cloths.
Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold (聖闘士星矢 黄金魂 -soul of gold-)
Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold (聖闘士星矢 黄金魂 -soul of gold-) is a 2015 Toei Animation net anime, 13 episodes, reviving the twelve Gold Saints in Asgard after the Hades chapter, with Norse-myth foes Loki and the God Warriors.
Saint Snow
Saint Snow (セイントスノー) is a fictional school idol duo in Love Live! Sunshine!!, formed by sisters Sarah and Leah Kazuno of Hakodate, Hokkaido, as rivals of Aqours.
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv
Saint Sophia Cathedral (Софійський собор), Kyiv: 11th-century Byzantine cathedral built under Yaroslav the Wise to rival Hagia Sophia; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1990, in danger since 2023, damaged by blast waves in 2025.
Saint Stephen
Saint Stephen, known as the Protomartyr (Greek Στέφανος, "crown"), was a Greek-speaking Jew of Jerusalem stoned to death around 35 or 36 CE as the first Christian martyr.
Saint Stephen's Day
Saint Stephen's Day, the Feast of St. Stephen, is the Christian feast of the first martyr, kept on 26 December and coinciding with Boxing Day.
Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana (music)
Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana is a Thai actor, singer, and producer who broke out as Pete in Love by Chance (2018) and founded the production company IdolFactory in 2020.
Saint symbolism
Saint symbolism: the attribute system of Christian art, in which objects, animals, and instruments of martyrdom (Peter's keys, Catherine's wheel, Jerome's lion) identify saints in paintings, icons, and stained glass, rooted in relic veneration and standardized from the twelfth century.
Saint Thomas Christians
Saint Thomas Christians (Nasrani) are the ancient indigenous Christians of Kerala, India, tracing origin to Apostle Thomas (traditionally landed at Muziris, 52 CE), long tied to the East Syriac Church of the East, divided by the 1599 Synod of Diamper and the 1653 Coonan Cross Oath into Syro-Malabar, Malankara Orthodox, and other churches.