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Hyacinth (Polish: Święty Jacek or Jacek Odrowąż; c. 1185 – 15 August 1257) was a Polish Dominican priest and missionary who worked to reform the women's monasteries in his native Poland. Educated in Paris and Bologna, he was a Doctor of Sacred Studies. (Full article...)

Attributes: statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Monstrance or Ciborium
Patronage: Lithuania, University of Santo Tomas-College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, invoked by those in danger of drowning; Basilica of St. Hyacinth
See also: Clare of Montefalco; Beatrice of Silva; Jeanne Delanoue, France; Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga, Japan