Saint James Matamoros the Americas as a rival force to the indigenous gods, and protector of Spaniards from the indigenous peoples of the Americas. He was depicted as a conquistador. The Order of Santiago, a Spanish order of knighthood, originates from St. James' supposed involvement at the Battle of Clavijo. A wide number of Mexican settlements were named Matamoros by Spanish settlers in honour of their patron saint. Matamoros can also be found as a Hispanic family name, for instance Miguel Matamoros. In the 1620s Spain debated who should be the country's patron—James, the current patron, or a combination of him and the
Patron Saints of the Hen Ogledd Patron Saints of the Hen Ogledd This is a list of Cumbrian saints, including saints more loosely associated with Hen Ogledd: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as Wales, Cornwall, Brittany or Devon. Saint Kentigern, or Mungo is said to be the son of Taneu, a princess of Gododdin, in the Hen Ogledd. He is believed to have died c. 612. Taneu became pregnant after she was raped by the leader of Rheged, Owain mab Urien. Later in his life, after expulsion from Pictland, the region of the Picts,