Patronages of Saint George with Saint George in many regions of the country, being widely celebrated by both religions' followers. Popular devotion to Saint George is very strong in Rio de Janeiro, where the saint vies in popularity with the city's official patron Saint Sebastian, both saints' feast days being local holidays. Saint George is also the patron saint of the football club Corinthians, of São Paulo. The club stadium is Parque São Jorge (Saint George's Park). St. George is praised by the Bulgarians as "liberator of captives, and defender of the poor, physician of the sick". For centuries he has been considered by
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,