Connected Sites
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San Millan: named after Saint Aemilian, a hermit (Feast Day: November 12), who lived in the Suso cave on the site.
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Skocjan is the name for St. Cantianus, a local patron saint
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Hilarion, ".. a native of the Gaza region and one possible father of Palestinian monasticism ... Hilarion had converted to Christianity in Alexandria and then, inspired by St Anthony, become a hermit first in Egypt and then in his home region." (wiki). A local footprint of Hilarion (Feast Day: October 21), who lived here as a hermit and established his first community on this soil.
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A local site of veneration for the Bohemian martyr John of Nepomuk (Feast Day: May 16), designed to house his relics. "In 1719, when the Roman Catholic Church declared the tongue of John of Nepomuk to be incorruptible, work started to build a church at Zelená hora, where the future saint had received his early education." (wiki)
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A local connection to Augustine of Canterbury (Feast Day: May 27). who lived, worked, and was buried here.
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A local site tied to the sovereign Saint King Lalibela (Feast Day: June 19), venerated as a saint by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
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Saint Gall: This site is locally significant as the location of the hermitage and burial of the Irish missionary Gall (Feast Day: October 16).
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Saint Marinus: "According to a legend, the first community was founded by Saint Marino, "who had reached this place from his birthplace in Dalmatia and had subsequently chosen to live here as a hermit." (Nomination file, p. 49). Honours the stonecutter Marinus (Feast Day: September 3).
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Wiki: "The town was named after the monk ?milion, a travelling confessor, who settled in a hermitage carved into the rock there in the 8th century. It was the monks who followed him that started up the commercial wine production in the area."
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After St. Catherine of Alexandria: a local site of significance, traditionally held as the place where her relics (Feast Day: November 25) were discovered.
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After Saint Menas, it is the burial place of the Egyptian martyr Menas (Feast Day: November 11 or 24).