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The vessels now carry names deriverd from one of the many Our Lady titles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus, or from Catholic saints.

San Cayetano Partido

The partido and its cabecera (capital) are named after San Cayetano, a Catholic Saint (1480-1547).


see also

Auxentius

Auxentius of Bithynia or Saint Auxentius (d. 473), a hermit cleared of heresy at the Council of Chalcedon and an Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint.

Æthelwine of Sceldeforde

Æthelwine of Sceldeforde was a seventh century Catholic Saint, who lived in Anglo-Saxon England.

Beornstan the Archdeacon

Beornstan the Archdeacon also known as Byrnstan was a Dark Ages Catholic saint from Kent in Anglo-Saxon England.

Bourgeoys

Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), Catholic saint, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame

Gaetano da Thiene

Saint Cajetan (1480–1547), Catholic saint and the founder of the order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines

Galgano

Galgano Guidotti (1148 – 1181), or Saint Galgano, Catholic saint from Tuscany

Ghede Nibo

Nibo is the special patron of those who die young, and as such is often conflated with the Catholic saint Gerard Majella, who is depicted with a skull.

Guy Pierre de Fontgalland

Guy de Fontgalland (November 30, 1913-January 24, 1925), Servant of God, was regarded in the inter-war period as the youngest potential Catholic saint who was not a martyr.

John Armstrong Drexel

He was also a relative of Katharine Drexel, a nun who was later made a Roman Catholic Saint.

John Cross

John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest

Kiara

Saint Cera, also spelled Kiara, a 7th-century Irish Roman Catholic saint

Narcisa

Narcisa de Jesús (1832–1869), Roman Catholic saint from Nobol, Ecuador

Peter Nolasco

Saint Peter Nolasco (1189–1256), Pere Nolasc in Catalan, Pierre Nolasque in French and Pedro Nolasco in Spanish, is a Catholic saint, born at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, Languedoc, today's France, although some historians claim he was born in Barcelona (see Encyclopædia Britannica).

Saint Ferreolus

Ferréol of Uzès (530–581), Catholic saint and bishop, feast day January 4

Santa Mustiola

Its name derives from a Catholic saint, Mustiola, cousin of the Roman Emperor Claudius II.

Von Bingen

Rupert of Bingen (712–732), German Roman Catholic saint and son of Bertha of Bingen

Bertha of Bingen (died ca. 757), German Roman Catholic saint and mother of Rupert of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 1179), German Roman Catholic saint, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath