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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATRON , a word of which the various meanings in See also:

European See also:languages are derived and transferred from that of the See also:Lat. patronus, whose position in See also:Roman See also:law and antiquities is treated below (PATRON AND CLIENT). The most See also:general application of the word in these transferred senses is that of an influential supporter or See also:protector. The earliest use of the word in See also:English appears to have been in the See also:special ecclesiastical sense of the holder of an See also:advowson, the right of presentation to a See also:benefice. From this meaning is deduced that of the See also:person in whom lies the right of presenting to public offices, privileges, &c., still surviving in the See also:title of the Patronage Secretary of the See also:Treasury in See also:Great See also:Britain. From the earliest See also:Christian times the See also:saints took the See also:place of the See also:pagan tutelary deities (Di tutelares) and were in this capacity called tutelares or patron, patron-saints. To them churches and other sacred buildings are dedicated, and they are regarded as the protectors and guardians of countries, towns, professions, trades and the like. Further, a person may have a patron-See also:saint, usually the one on or near whose festival he has been See also:born, or whose name has been taken in See also:baptism. A full See also:list of saints, with the See also:objects of the See also:peculiar patronage of each, is given in M. E. C. See also:Walcott's Sacred See also:Archaeology (1868).

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