Definition of Patroness. Meaning of Patroness. Synonyms of Patroness

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Definition of Patroness

Patroness
Patroness Pa"tron*ess, n. [Cf. F. patronnesse.] A female patron or helper. --Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. --Milton.

Meaning of Patroness from wikipedia

- Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another. In the history of art, arts...
- A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental...
- Mother Patroness (Russian: Мать-Покровительница, Mat’-Pokrovitel’nitsa; Chuvash: Aнне-Пирĕшти, Anne-Pirĕshti) - a monument dedicated to his[clarification...
- Amman; 23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe. Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman...
- the wombs of women. St. Clare of ****isi is the oldest saint declared patroness of Catanghalan (the town's former name), her image first enshrined the...
- Joséphine Bonaparte (French: [ʒozefin bɔnapaʁt], born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was Empress of the French as...
- Turan was the Etruscan goddess of love, fertility and vitality and patroness of the city of Velch. In art, Turan was usually depicted as a young winged...
- some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of music and musicians, it being written that, as the musicians pla****...
- Montserrat monastery on Montserrat mountain in Catalonia, Spain. She is the patroness saint of Catalonia, an honour she shares with Saint George (Sant Jordi...
- canonized as such. As a saint, Rose of Lima has been designated as a co-patroness of the Philippines along with Pudentiana; both saints were moved to second-class...