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Which holiday's name means 'evening of the saints'?
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What does legend say Saint Patrick drove out of Ireland?
Answer: Snakes
Why: Ireland has had no native snakes since the last Ice Age, so there were none for Patrick to banish.
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What language does the name 'Santa Claus' come from?
Answer: Dutch
Why: The name first appeared in American newspapers in 1773, as an English form of the Dutch Sinterklaas.
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In which modern country is Saint George's traditional tomb?
Answer: Israel
Why: Greek tradition puts his birth in Cappadocia, now in Turkey, but his burial in Lydda, his mother's home town, now Lod.
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What is the Church's formal act of declaring a saint called?
Answer: Canonization
Why: Beatification is only the step before: it makes a person Blessed and allows only local veneration.
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Which group's patron saint gave Saint Elmo's fire its name?
Answer: Sailors
Why: That bluish glow is plasma forming around ship masts and other pointed objects during thunderstorms.
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What word for a place of worship comes from Saint Martin's cloak?
Answer: Chapel
Why: Priests who looked after the cloak were called capellani, which gave English the word chaplain.
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