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* In ''[[Hellboy]]: The Nature of the Beast'', St. Leonard the Hermit and his slaying of the St. Leonard Worm are alluded to to when the eponymous Hellboy fights a similar creature, and just like in the legends, Hellboy's blood also causes flowers to spring up from the earth. Later, in ''Box Full of Evil'', St. Dunstan is mentioned, and his image used, in connection with a demon he had defeated and imprisoned centuries earlier. |
* In ''[[Hellboy]]: The Nature of the Beast'', St. Leonard the Hermit and his slaying of the St. Leonard Worm are alluded to to when the eponymous Hellboy fights a similar creature, and just like in the legends, Hellboy's blood also causes flowers to spring up from the earth. Later, in ''Box Full of Evil'', St. Dunstan is mentioned, and his image used, in connection with a demon he had defeated and imprisoned centuries earlier. |
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* The Saint of Killers from the comic ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' |
* The Saint of Killers from the comic ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' |
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== [[Fan Fiction]] == |
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* [[The Teraverse]] features, among a number of superheroes and their various sidekicks and support staffers, an entire order of Catholic nuns, one of whom is a telekinetic flier. They're called the Order of [[Saine Jeanne d'Arc|Joan of Arc]], in a fit of [[Insistent Terminology]]: their foundress is a California girl, but bilingual in French. |
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== [[Film]] == |
== [[Film]] == |
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