Saint Guinefort
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Saint Guinefort was a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint.
A painting based on Saint Guinefort by Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
Folk saint
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Folk saints are dead people or other spiritually powerful entities venerated as saints, but not officially canonized. Since they are saints of the "folk", or the populus, they are also called popular
Saint Guinefort
…Saint Guinefort (modern French pronunciation: ) was a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Guinefort's story is a variation on the well-travelled "dog defends master's child against animal assailant" motif, as indexed in the international…
Gauchito Gil (left) and San La Muerte (right), two examples of Argentine folk saints
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