Patron Saints

[ImLostAgain]

Not sure where to put this question so here it is. Do all English cities have patron saints?

[Mamyalynne]

I haven't counted but scroll here down to UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saints_of_places#Cities_and_towns

[kvalidir]

Ours is St Ethelbert, and this might be helpful ImLostAgain. https://catholicsaints.info/patron-saints-of-cities-of-england/

[ImLostAgain]

Thanks Mamyalynne. Seems some do and some don't.

[ImLostAgain]

Wow another good site. Thanks kvalidir.

[gulliver1]

John Bercow thinks he is the Patron Saint of the
House of Commons.

[jno]

list of english cities

[jno]

sorry, that went off rather half-*** when I accidentally deleted half of it. I was going to say go through a list of English cities; my guess would be that newer ones don't. In olden times you had to have a cathedral before you became a city, and cathedrals often have saints to call on. That's not requited any more, and I don't think Wolverhampton, for instance, has either a cathedral or a patron saint.

[ummmm]

And it has to be a CofE cathedral. We only have a Catholic one here.

[jno]

true. I think Catholics have a longer list of saints to draw on, though, having been around many more centuries

[gulliver1]

Saint Tony, now he was a very Righteous Man.