He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets and where he had the opportunity to be a great patron for Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the decorations of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, titular churches for several of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

The Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere was a titulus of which Callixtus was the patron.

No contemporary documents record the patron of the fresco, but recently references to ownership of a tomb at the foot of the fresco have been found in the records of the Berti family of the Santa Maria Novella Quarter of Florence ; this working-class family expressed a long-standing devotion to the Trinity, and may well have commissioned Masaccio's painting.

This Grote Kerk or Sint-Bavokerk was originally a parish church devoted to Maria, but was later named after the patron saint of Haarlem, Saint Bavo, who descended from Heaven regularly to free the Haarlemmers from invaders, most recently when the Kennemers and West-Friesians attacked in 1274.

Vigevano is crowned by the Castello Sforzesco, a stronghold rebuilt 1492 – 94 for Ludovico Maria Sforza ( Ludovico il Moro ), the great patron born in the town, who transformed the fortification / hunting lodge of Luchino Visconti ( who in turn had re-used a Lombard fortress ) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance.

Three popular fiestas are celebrated each year in town: Cinco de Mayo ( May 5 ), the 16 de Septiembre Fiestas Patrias ( Mexico's Independence from Spain ) and the 12 de Diciembre ( the patron saint of Mexico, Santa Maria de Guadalupe ) to celebrate the Virgin Mary.

He died in Rome in his 77th year and was buried in the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, near his papal patron.

His cousin and contemporary was the poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine patron of the arts and scholar-poet, Tito Vespasiano Strozzi.

In Guatemala it is observed in Guatemala City and in the town of Santa Maria Nebaj, both of which claim her as their patron saint.

* 7 June and 21 October Sant Antonio Maria Gianelli ( second patron saint of Bobbio )

* 15 August Santa Maria Assunta ( feast of the patron Bobbio and Cathedral of Bobbio, fireworks at Ponte Gobbo )

* Fourteen-year-old Girolamo Frescobaldi is appointed organist at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, thanks to his patron Guido Bentivoglio.

* July 18 – Maria Antonia of Bavaria, composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron ( d. 1780 )

The Gothic church of Santa Maria della Scala, houses the remains of the local patron.

There were nine official patron saints for World Youth Day 2011 in addition to Blessed John Paul II: St. Isidore, St. John of the Cross, St. Maria de la Cabeza, St. John of Avila, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Rose of Lima, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Rafael Arnaiz, and St. Francis Xavier, patron of world missions.

*" This reproduction of a 1730 Cristofori-the greatest of all makers and often the most underrated-by Denzil Wraight based on one made for Scarlatti ’ s patron Queen Maria Barbara of Spain makes a gorgeous sound.

After Isabella's death in 1539 Cabezón was appointed music teacher to her children: Prince Felipe and his sisters Maria and Joan ( Maria would later become the most important patron of composer Tomás Luis de Victoria ).

The plant had already been quietly imported directly into the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, where in 1797 professors Casimiro Gómez Ortega and Antonio Palau y Verdera named it, though they did not yet effectively publish it, Aloysia citrodora in Latin and " Hierba de la Princesa " in Spanish, to compliment Maria Louisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias the wife of the Garden's patron Infante Carlos de Borbon, Prince of Asturias and son of king Carlos III.

His mother, Empress Maria Fedorovna, widow of Alexander III, was the patron of the city of Gatchina and Gatchina Palace and parks.

Honthorst became especially noted for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, receiving the nickname " Gherardo delle Notti " ( Gerard of the night ), Cardinal Scipio Borghese was another important patron who secured important commisssions for him at San Silvesto Della Mariro, Montecompatri, and at Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The name was derived from its patron saint Maria Magdalena and the barrio of Ambling where it was established.

For the same patron, he constructed the Palazzo Montalto near Santa Maria Maggiore, with its skilful distribution of masses and tied decorative scheme of reliefs and festoons, impressive because of the dexterity with which the artist adapted the plan to the site at his disposal.

* February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.

The patron ( the official making the appointment ) promoted the interests of clients in return for their support.

He remained on Foch's staff when his patron was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the spring of 1918, and was Foch's right-hand man throughout his victory at the Second Marne ( for which Foch was promoted Marshal of France ) in the late summer and until the end of the war.

The band is said to have been named after a street brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley.

A significant artistic patron in the Jacobean as well as the Elizabethan era, Southampton promoted the work of George Chapman, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Heywood, and the composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

The resident Basques in the municipality, in remembrance of their home region and its religious patron, saw the need of upgrading the old traditional Pepino used by the Canary Islanders to the new and " up-dated " San Sebastián, promoted and thus got the name formally changed by the central government authority.

On May 15, the Ides, Mercury was honored as a patron of merchants and increaser of profit ( through an etymological connection with merx, merces, " goods, merchandise "), another possible connection with Maia his mother as a goddess who promoted growth.

Her cult and her status as patron saint of Paris were promoted by Clotilde, who may have commissioned the writing of her vita.

Thereafter he took refuge in Cheshire, where he met Sir Orlando Bridgeman, whose clerk he became, being raised to the offices of court-crier and seal-bearer as his patron was promoted to those of judge and Lord Keeper.

To unify the Polish lands culturally and oppose the aggressive German culture, he strongly promoted the cult of Saint Wojciech, the first Polish Catholic saint and one of the patron saints of Poland.

The patron ( the official making the appointment ) promoted the interests of clients in return for their support.

The cathedral was commissioned by Andrew the Pious in his capital Vladimir and dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), whom he promoted as the patron saint of his lands.

* Patron of Pozzuoli, Saint Proculus, and patron of Naples, Saint Januarius are thrown to wild beasts in Pozzuoli's Flavian Amphitheater, then beheaded at Solfatara.

* Januarius, patron saint of Naples

Popular characters and historical figures who have come to symbolise the city include Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, the comic figure Pulcinella, and the Sirens from the Greek epic poem the Odyssey.

There he resided first in Naples, where his patron was Francesco Carracciolo.

San Gennaro ( Saint Januarius in English ) is the patron of Naples.

While no contemporary sources on his life are preserved, later sources and legends claim that he died during the Diocletianic Persecution, which ended with Diocletian's retirement in 305. Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the alleged liquefaction of what is claimed to be a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule.

Following the death of his major patron, Alfonso ( 1495 ), in 1499 he received his villa " Mergellina " near Naples from Frederick IV, but when Frederick capitulated to France and Aragon, he followed him into exile in France in 1501, whence he returned to Mergellina after Frederick's death at Tours ( 1504 ).

Of the same years is the Crucifixion in the Royal Museum of Antwerp: his early works shows a marked Flemish influence, which it is now understood he derived from his master Colantonio and from works by Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck that belonged to Colantonio's patron, Alfonso V of Aragon ; his biographer Vasari remarked that Antonello saw at Naples an oil painting by Jan Van Eyck ( the " Lomellini Tryptych ") belonging to King Alfonso V of Aragon ; Vasari's further narrative, that being struck by the new method, set out for the Netherlands to acquire a knowledge of the process from Van Eyck's disciples is discredited today.

If so, it has remained far more secret and " esoteric " than in any of the other great spiritual traditions of the world, so much so that its existence is highly doubtful ..." The Welsh writer Norman Lewis, in his celebrated account of life in Naples in 1944, claimed that San Rocco was the patron saint of coitus reservatus: " I recommended him to drink -- as the locals did -- marsala with the yolk of eggs stirred into it, and to wear a medal of San Rocco, patron of coitus reservatus, which could be had in any religious-supplies shop ".

In 305, this is the location where the patron of Pozzuoli, Saint Proculus, and patron of Naples, Saint Januarius were beheaded.

Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, where the faithful gather three times a year in Naples Cathedral to witness the alleged liquefaction of what is claimed to be a sample of his blood kept in a sealed glass ampoule.

While still in the pay of Lorenzo, Giuliano visited Naples, and worked there for the king, who sent him back to Florence with presents of money, plate and antique sculpture, the last of which Giuliano presented to his patron Lorenzo.

As Duke of Calabria he was a patron of Renaissance poets and builders during his tenure as the heir to the throne of Naples.

In 1838 he was chosen as a patron saint of Naples, where his body lies.