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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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* Nicholas van Rijn (A.D. 2376 to c. 2500) is a fictional character who plays the central role in the first half of [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History]]. He swears by Saint Dismas (the Good Thief, appropriately), and has expressed the intention of burning candles in offering (to which another character responded "The Saint had best get it in writing"). |
* Nicholas van Rijn (A.D. 2376 to c. 2500) is a fictional character who plays the central role in the first half of [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History]]. He swears by Saint Dismas (the Good Thief, appropriately), and has expressed the intention of burning candles in offering (to which another character responded "The Saint had best get it in writing"). |
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* Leonard Cohen's ''Beautiful Losers'' is about a Canadian historian researching |
* Leonard Cohen's ''Beautiful Losers'' is about a Canadian historian researching St. Kateri Tekakwitha, "the Lily of the Mohawks" |
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* Several stories are based on the fictional patron saint of engineers, St. Vidicon, who martyred himself to ensure a key speech by the Pope would make it to air. He is invoked to defend against [[Finagle's Law|Finagle]]. |
* Several stories are based on the fictional patron saint of engineers, St. Vidicon, who martyred himself to ensure a key speech by the Pope would make it to air. He is invoked to defend against [[Finagle's Law|Finagle]]. |
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* St. Sebastian's connection to gay men led [[Yukio Mishima]], in his autobiographical novel ''Confessions of a Mask'', to write a lengthy "awakening" moment in front of a picture of the saint. |
* St. Sebastian's connection to gay men led [[Yukio Mishima]], in his autobiographical novel ''Confessions of a Mask'', to write a lengthy "awakening" moment in front of a picture of the saint. |
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* The ''Speaker for the Dead'' branch of [[Orson Scott Card]]'s [[Ender's Game|Enderverse]] includes the Order of the Children of the Mind of Christ (married but chaste monks who run schools on most Catholic colonies), founded by St. Angelo of Moctezuma (who in traditional Church logic would therefore be the Order's patron saint), an eccentric monk whose death Andrew had spoken [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|2000 years]] before the events of ''Speaker for the Dead''. |
* The ''Speaker for the Dead'' branch of [[Orson Scott Card]]'s [[Ender's Game|Enderverse]] includes the Order of the Children of the Mind of Christ (married but chaste monks who run schools on most Catholic colonies), founded by St. Angelo of Moctezuma (who in traditional Church logic would therefore be the Order's patron saint), an eccentric monk whose death Andrew had spoken [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|2000 years]] before the events of ''Speaker for the Dead''. |
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* St. Expeditus, a cult saint not recognized by the Church, is referenced in the [[Father Koesler]] mystery, ''Death Wears a Red Hat'', wherein he is noted both as the patron saint of avoiding procrastination and hurrying decisions and also in his role in Santeria of being used in rituals to dispatch foes. |
* St. Expeditus, a cult saint not recognized by the Church, is referenced in the [[Father Koesler]] mystery, ''Death Wears a Red Hat'', wherein he is noted both as the patron saint of avoiding procrastination and hurrying decisions and also in his role in Santeria of being used in rituals to dispatch foes. |
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* In ''[[1632]]'', the town of Grantville, West Virginia, travels back in time to 1630s Germany; as a result, the Catholic priest finds it necessary to rename the parish church, because its original patron saint, St. Vincent de Paul, ''isn't even dead yet.'' |
* In ''[[1632]]'', the town of Grantville, West Virginia, travels back in time to 1630s Germany; as a result, the Catholic priest finds it necessary to rename the parish church, because its original patron saint, St. Vincent de Paul, ''isn't even dead yet.'' In the various sequels, it's often referred to - particularly by a couple of high-ranking church officials who have had to deal with Vincent de Paul and are grateful that he doesn't know the Americans think he's a saint. |
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