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St. Rita Of Cascia
St. Rita of Cascia is a fifteenth-century Italian Christian saint associated with marriage, widowhood, religious life, forgiveness and apparently impossible causes. Known in Italian as Santa Rita da Cascia, she belonged …
Arael
Arael is an uncertain and relatively minor name in angelological tradition. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel, Arael does not possess a consistent identity in the major Jewish, Christian or Islamic scriptures. Th…
St. Robert Bellarmine
St. Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit, cardinal, theologian, bishop, and Catholic saint of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His life unfolded during the Catholic Reformation, a period of intense …
Ansiel
Ansiel is an obscure angelic name found in some later occult and angelological compilations. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel, Ansiel does not have a clear role in the major scriptures of Judaism, Christianity o…
St. Roch
St. Roch, also known as Roch of Montpellier, Saint Rocco, San Roque, or Rochus, is a Christian saint traditionally associated with the care of people suffering from plague and other epidemic diseases. His cult developed …
Anpiel
Anpiel is a name associated in some angelological lists with an angel who governs or protects birds. The figure belongs to the broad field of Jewish and Christian angel lore rather than to a clearly defined biblical trad…
St. Ronan Of Kilmaronen
St. Ronan of Kilmaronen is an obscure Scottish saint associated with an early Christian settlement whose name survives in the place-name Kilmaronock, in the historic parish of Kilmaronock near Loch Lomond. The saint belo…
Anahel
Anahel is a rare and uncertain angelic name found chiefly in later esoteric and occult lists rather than in the Bible or other major canonical religious scriptures. The spelling is sometimes treated as a variant of Anael…
St. Romanus Of Condat
St. Romanus of Condat was a fifth-century Christian monk and monastic founder associated with the Jura Mountains of eastern Gaul, in the region now forming part of eastern France. Known in French as Saint Romain de Conda…
Anapiel
Anapiel is an obscure angelic name associated with Jewish mystical and angelological traditions. The name is more often written as Anaphiel, Anpiel, or Anafi’el, and the surviving evidence does not establish a single, un…
St. Romaric
Saint Romaric, also known as Romary or Romaricus, was a seventh-century Frankish nobleman who became a monk and an important founder of religious life in the Vosges region of north-eastern Gaul. He is especially associat…