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Saint

person who has been recognized for having an exceptional degree of holiness, sanctity, and virtue; may or may not be a canonised saint

8 dated entries naming Saint, drawn from 8 separate years between 177 CE and 1860 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century

  • 177Forty-eight Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, are among them).source

4th century

  • 347Paula, Desert Mother and Saint (d. 404)source

5th century

  • 408May 4 – Venerius, bishop of Milan and Saintsource
  • 417Peter the Iberian, Georgian theologian and Saint (approximate date)source
  • 452John the Silent, bishop and Saint (died 558)source

17th century

  • 1616March 11 – English Roman Catholic priest, Thomas Atkinson, is hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, at age 70 (he will be beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 22, 1987).source

18th century

  • 1745February 24 – Fyodor Ushakov, a Russian Saint and Admiral (d. 1817)source

19th century

  • 1860January 5 – John Neumann, Saint and Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia (b. 1811)source

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