Ginés de la Jara
Catholic Saint
Feast: 25 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ginés de la Jara (also known as Ginés de la Xara, Ginés el Franco, Genesius Sciarensis) is a semi-legendary saint of Spain. He is associated with the region surrounding Cartagena, of which he is co-patron. A hermitage was founded adjacent to the Mar Menor, and ruins of a monastery bearing his name date from before the Moorish conquest of 711 AD, that is, from the Visigothic era.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q2343730 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ginés de la Jara (CC BY-SA)
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