Named after a local Christian saint

Connected Sites: 15

Definition
WHS named after a Christian saint, only have saints directly connected IN PERSON with the site.

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Connected Sites

  • Yuso and Suso Monasteries
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.00
    124
    5

    San Millan: named after Saint Aemilian, a hermit (Feast Day: November 12), who lived in the Suso cave on the site.
  • Trinity Sergius Lavra
    Inscribed: 1993
    3.08
    101
    5

    Sergius of Radonezh (Feast Day: September 25), who founded the monastery and is buried there.
  • Skocjan Caves
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.63
    244
    10
    Skocjan is the name for St. Cantianus, a local patron saint
  • Tell Umm Amer
    Palestine
    Inscribed: 2024
    0
    0

    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.
  • Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
    Inscribed: 1994
    2.77
    152
    9

    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)
  • Canterbury
    Canterbury
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.41
    323
    13

    A local connection to Augustine of Canterbury (Feast Day: May 27). who lived, worked, and was buried here.
  • Lalibela
    Lalibela
    Ethiopia
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.14
    79
    6

    A local site tied to the sovereign Saint King Lalibela (Feast Day: June 19), venerated as a saint by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
  • Abbey of St Gall
    Abbey of St Gall
    Switzerland
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.26
    246
    6

    Saint Gall: This site is locally significant as the location of the hermitage and burial of the Irish missionary Gall (Feast Day: October 16).
  • Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
    Inscribed: 1983
    2.97
    99
    10

    St Savin. a hermit and "one of the first Christians to have evangelized the Lavedan valley" (source). This site is a formal dedication to the 5th-century martyr brothers Savin and Cyprian (Feast Day: September 16)
  • San Marino and Mount Titano
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.45
    303
    8

    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).
  • Saint-Emilion
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.00
    195
    8
    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."
  • Saint Catherine Area
    Inscribed: 2002
    3.50
    112
    8

    After St. Catherine of Alexandria: a local site of significance, traditionally held as the place where her relics (Feast Day: November 25) were discovered.
  • Ferapontov Monastery
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.01
    25
    3

    Saint Ferapont: founded by Therapon (Feast Day: May 27) in 1398.
  • Assisi
    Assisi
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.76
    258
    8

    Saint Francis of Assisi, (Feast Day: October 4) was born, lived, and is buried on this site.
  • Abu Mena
    Inscribed: 1979
    1.68
    56
    6

    After Saint Menas, it is the burial place of the Egyptian martyr Menas (Feast Day: November 11 or 24).