Who is the patron saint of locksmiths and clockmakers?
Madonna and Child with Saint George Madonna and Child with Saint George Madonna and Child with Saint George ("Madonna di San Giorgio") is an oil on panel painting by Correggio dating to around 1530 and now in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. It features the Madonna and Child in the centre under a floral dome which draws on the "Madonna della Vittoria" by Mantegna. To the left are Geminianus (patron saint of Modena, shown in bishop's robes and holding a model of the city assisted by a putto) and John the Baptist. To the right are saint Peter Martyr (patron saint of the confraternity for which it
Patron saint Patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person. Saints often become the patrons of places where they were born or had been active. However, there were cases in Medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence and obtained for its cathedral the remains or some relics of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, thus making him or her the