08 — Patronage and Devotion

The breadth of St. Claude’s patronage — wood-turners, toymakers, whistle-makers, and a whole region — rooted in the pilgrimage economy of the town that bore his name, and the devotion and identity that outlived the relic the Revolution destroyed.

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patron-of-many.md The craft-patronages (turners, toymakers, whistle-makers, tanners); the pilgrimage → tournerie → pipes mechanism; the cult carried to St. Claude, Manitoba; the disambiguation from Claude de la Colombière
devotion-and-identity.md The saint as namesake and patron of a town and region; the devotion of the Burgundian dukes; a cult that outlived its shrine

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