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Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas is a 32-square-mile Caribbean island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, capital Charlotte Amalie, bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in gold; mountainous, water-scarce, tourism-driven.
Saint Timothy
Saint Timothy, or Timothy of Ephesus, was a first-century Christian leader from Lystra who served as Paul's co-worker and envoy, recipient of two New Testament letters.
Saint Ursula
Saint Ursula, legendary British princess and virgin martyr of Cologne, leader of the 11,000 virgins killed by the Huns; number arose from a 10th-century reading error, feast 21 October, veneration centered on Cologne's Golden Chamber relics.
Saint Valentine
Saint Valentine, also known as Valentine of Terni, is the name shared by early Christian martyrs, a priest of Rome and a bishop of Terni, commemorated on February 14.
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: killing of seven Moran North Side gang members in a Chicago garage on February 14, 1929, by gunmen posing as police, generally attributed to Al Capone's mob; solved ballistically but never prosecuted.
Saint Veronica
Saint Veronica, also known as Saint Berenice, is a legendary Christian woman said to have wiped Jesus's face with a veil on the way to Calvary.
Saint Vincent
Saint Vincent is the name shared by several Catholic saints, chiefly Vincent of Saragossa, a deacon martyred in 304, as well as Vincent de Paul and Vincent Pallotti.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Eastern Caribbean archipelago of 32 islands, independent since 1979, capital Kingstown. Tourism- and agriculture-based economy; Godwin Friday became prime minister in November 2025, ending Ralph Gonsalves' 24-year rule.
Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus is an American doom metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1979, named after the Black Sabbath song "St. Vitus' Dance" and known for the 1986 album Born Too Late.
Saint Vitus Bar
Saint Vitus Bar is a heavy metal and underground music venue in Brooklyn, New York, opened in Greenpoint in 2011 and reopened in Bushwick in 2026.
Saint Winifred
Saint Winifred, also known as Saint Winefride (Welsh Gwenfrewi), is a seventh-century Welsh virgin martyr and abbess who, according to twelfth-century Lives, was beheaded and restored to life, with her well at Holywell still drawing pilgrims.
Saint X
Saint X: 2020 debut novel by Alexis Schaitkin (Celadon Books) and its 2023 Hulu series about Alison Thomas's mysterious death on a Caribbean island and her sister Emily's search for truth; eight episodes, Leila Gerstein showrunner, cancelled after one season.
Saint Young Men (聖☆おにいさん)
Saint Young Men (聖☆おにいさん) is Hikaru Nakamura's religious comedy manga, running in Kodansha's Morning Two since 2006, following Buddha and Jesus on vacation in Tachikawa, Tokyo; adapted as a 2013 anime film, 2018–2020 live-action drama, and 2024 live-action film.
Saint-Chamond (tank)
The Saint-Chamond (Char Saint-Chamond) was a French heavy tank of the First World War, built at Saint-Chamond and second to enter service after the Schneider CA1.
Saint-Denis, Réunion
Saint-Denis (Réunion) is the chef-lieu and largest commune of the French overseas island of Réunion: 155,634 inhabitants in 2023, 142.8 km², about 30% of island jobs, capital since 1738, distinct from Saint-Denis in metropolitan France.
Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis: northern Paris suburb (149,077 inhabitants, 2023), home of the royal necropolis basilica where Dagobert I was buried in 639, a 19th-century industrial center, and site of the Paris 2024 Olympic Village.
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue, the French colony on western Hispaniola (today Haiti), was the wealthiest Caribbean colony, producing half the world's sugar and coffee with ~500,000 enslaved people until the 1791 revolt led to Haitian independence in 1804.
Saint-Domingue expedition
The Saint-Domingue expedition (Expédition de Saint-Domingue) was a French expedition sent by Napoleon in 1802 under General Leclerc to restore French rule in Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti.
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne is a city in east-central France and the prefecture of the Loire department, a former coal-mining and arms-making center now known for design, holding UNESCO Creative City status since 2010.
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a Catholic parish church on the montagne Sainte-Geneviève behind the Panthéon in Paris, begun in 1492 and consecrated in 1626, known for its surviving choir screen and the tombs of Pascal and Racine.
Saint-Eustache, Paris
Saint-Eustache is a large parish church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, built from 1532 to the 1630s and home to one of France's largest pipe organs.
Saint-Fang Pharma (圣方医药研发)
Saint-Fang Pharma (圣方医药研发) is a Shanghai clinical contract research organization founded in 2019, raising a $52 million Series A in 2022 from LYFE Capital and Sinovation Ventures.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Left Bank quarter of Paris's 6th arrondissement around a 6th-century abbey church, known for its literary cafés, art galleries, restored church decor, redeveloped square, and luxury retail.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines commune west of Paris, former royal residence founded around 1120, birthplace of Louis XIV, site of the 1919 treaty with Austria, home of the Musée d'Archéologie nationale.
Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain, formally Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, is a French multinational construction materials company founded by Louis XIV in 1665 as the Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs.
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, also Gellone abbey: a medieval village in Hérault, France, founded 804 by Guilhem, cousin of Charlemagne, on the Way of Saint James, UNESCO-listed since 1998, with a unique 12th-century marble-and-glass altar.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, known in French as the fête nationale du Québec, is Quebec's national holiday, celebrated each June 24 and marked by francophone communities across Canada.
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec city (formerly Saint-Jean-Iberville), formed 24 January 2001 by merging five municipalities; 11th largest Quebec city, about 100,400 Johannais on the Richelieu River in Montérégie, site of Fort Saint-Jean (1666-1667).
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, was a French poet and diplomat, secretary-general of the Quai d'Orsay, who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Saint-Laurent nuclear power plant
The Saint-Laurent nuclear power plant is an EDF-run French plant on the Loire between Orléans and Blois, with two 900 MWe pressurized water reactors commissioned in 1980 and 1981.