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5 St Philip Benizi
(sv Benicius; 1714) Miracle worker and healer.
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6 St Adalbert
(sv Vojtěch; 1709) Prague's first Czech bishop, canonised in the
10th century. Replica.
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7 St Cajetan
(1709) Italian founder of the Theatine order.
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8 The Vision of St Luitgard
(1710) In which Christ appears to the blind saint
and allows her to kiss his wounds.
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9 St Augustine
(1708) Reformed hedonist, theological fountainhead of the
Reformation, and patron saint of brewers. Replica.
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10 St Nicholas of Tolentino
(1706) Patron of Holy Souls. Replica.
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11 St Jude Thaddaeus
(1708) Patron saint of hopeless causes.
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12 St Vincent Ferrer
(1712) A 14th-century Spanish priest, shown with
St
Procopius
, Hussite warrior-priest.
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13 St Anthony of Padua
(1707) A disciple of St Francis of Assisi.
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14 St Francis Seraphinus
(1855) Patron of the poor and abandoned.
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15 St John of Nepomuk
(1683) Bronze. Patron saint of Czechs.
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16 St Wenceslas as a boy
(c 1730) With his grandmother and guardian St
Ludmilla, patroness of Bohemia.
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17 St Wenceslas
(1853) With
St Sigismund
, son of Charles IV, and
St
Norbert
, 12th-century German founder of the Premonstratensian order.
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18 St Francis Borgia
(1710) A 16th-century Spanish priest.
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19 St John the Baptist
(1857) By Josef Max.
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20 St Christopher
(1857) Patron saint of travellers.
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21 Sts Cyril & Methodius
(1938) These two introduced Christianity and a
written script (Cyrillic) to the Slavs in the 9th century.
