In 1880 he was declared patron of all Roman Catholic educational establishments.
Averroes had been stamped as the patron of indifference to theological dogmas, and credited with the emancipation which was equally due to wider experience and the lessons of the Crusades.
Often single spoons were given, bearing the figure of the patron or name saint of the child.
In what Miss Winwood called his subtle Italian way, he induced his patron to discuss the speeches before the process of composition.
At the Circus, he met a friend, an English betting man, who was a constant patron of the London Pavilion.
Whether we regard him as a warrior or as a legislator, as a patron of learning or as the civilizer of a barbarous nation, he is entitled to our warmest admiration.
And St. Rinaldo has ever since been the patron of that place, and many wonderful works has God done through him, as may be seen in the legends.
Here is the letter from the three miserable musicasters to their patron and fellow-conspirator.
A beautiful melody then, apart from words, said no more to these musicians, and to the patron whose idiotic theory they are so proud to have adopted than a set of nonsense-verses!
Mr. Smith was a great collector of books, and patron of the arts.
Germany, a musician, and the great patron of the opera at Vienna, i.
When the patron came the youth ordered wine for us.
Then the old patron asked me to put my name in his ledger, which contained many names of both humble and famous.
She was a patron of the arts, passionately fond of shows and spectacles, and sensible to poetic flattery.
Cardinal Wolsey, whom More succeeded as chancellor, was also a munificent patron of learning and founded Christ Church College, at Oxford.
But thepatron saint of Ireland being a Frenchman, what more natural, and therefore what more proper, than that the whole Emerald Isle should slant toward the people who love art and rabbit-stew!
One cause of this tendency may lie in the fact that Saint Patrick was a native of France; although Saint Patrick may or may not have been chosen patron saint on account of his nationality.
She also founded the cathedral of Monza and other churches in Lombardy and Tuscany, all of which she dedicated to St. John the Baptist, who was her patron saint.
Roman classical architecture, and there is no doubt that he believed that he equalled, or perhaps excelled, Julius Caesar and all other Roman emperors as a patron of the Fine Arts.
Entire villages have been transplanted from Italy to one New York street, and with the others have come the doctor, the grocer, the priest, and the annual celebration of the local patron saint.
He became the patronsaint of American civilization, as much yours as ours, and as much ours as yours.
His first patron was Lord Liverpool, to whom he became private secretary in the following year.
We have one letter in which he regretfully abandons the project of a tour with Freeman in his beloved Anjou because he finds that the only dates open to his companion clash with the festival of the patron saint of his church.
But when thepatron cannon jars That prison's cold and gloomy wall, And through its grates the stripes and stars Rise on the wind, and fall, Think ye that prisoner's aged ear Rejoices in the general cheer?
Under these circumstances we were found by Mr. Anney, one of the best and noblest men in the world, a friend and patron of the Poles, who gave us employment.
Hanka found one patron who took care of her in the appropriate manner; how many similar patrons and protectors could Miss Anney find?
He was the intimate or the patron of men who now stand out as among the first lights of that time--of Morellet, of Priestley, of Bentham.
In thanking him for this service, Burke proceeded to bargain that the obligation should not bind him to give to his patron the whole of his time.
He had consequently no motive to represent the character of Catilina as worse than it really was, especially as his patron Caesar was commonly supposed to have been implicated in the first conspiracy (66 B.
Consecrated and vowed'; alluding to the common practice of assassins, of dedicating the weapon to some patron deity, in case of the attempt being successful.
But I replied that Saint Cyprian seems to me the patron saint of the lamplighters; I don't belong to that society.
The pious Catholics, thus pleasantly strengthened and justified in their thirst for revenge by their patron saint, had long waited, in mingled curiosity and anxiety, for the blow Saint Cyprian was to deal the heretics.
Basil attended his patron to the government of Peloponnesus; eclipsed, by his personal merit the birth and dignity of Theophilus, and formed a useful connection with a wealthy and charitable matron of Patras.
As thepatron of the republic, it was the interest and duty of the Gothic king to cultivate the affections of the senate [58] and people.
A worm-eaten chair was thrust on the balcony of the inn, and the nominee of the patron was declared chosen and chaired.
The right of voting for this distracted borough had already been changed from one of nominees of the patron to one purely democratic, and now, in 1701, it was again changed.
But he has failed; the Irish patron maintains his place.
I doubt if any Cornish people are so foolish as to do such a thing as suspend rags about a well with the idea of these rags serving as an oblation to the patron of the spring for the sake of obtaining benefits from him.
It binds him to the territory, so that the provincial cannot remove him without the consent of the vice-patron and of the ordinary.
Your Majesty will be their only patron and will give them such statutes as he shall please for their better government.
The Duke of Mantua, a most liberal and discerning patron of art, was in Venice when Rubens reached that city.
And we, as our patron saint, look up to thee, ever will, And crown with laurel the dust here left with us still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patron" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
