10/ Mary Magdalene - Mary's main attribute is the jar of perfume she used to seduce men when she was a prostitute. If there's a pot, it's Mary. Often cradles a skull while living in a cave and repenting her sins. Has trouble keeping her clothes on!

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9/ St Martin of Tours - Painted by El Greco, top left, and Van Dyck, top right, cutting his cloak in half and giving it to a beggar. After he gave away half his cloak, Jesus appeared to him in a dream wearing the missing bit! Later, he became bishop of Tours.

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7/ St Agatha - Another mutilated Christian martyr, Agatha had her breasts cut off and is usually seen carrying them on a plate. Born in Catania in Sicily, she spurned the advances of a Roman pagan. First they put her in a brothel. Then they tried to burn her.

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2/ St Lucy - You can't miss St Lucy in art. She'll be holding a plate with her eyes on it! The story goes that Lucia from Syracuse refused to give up her virginity to a pagan suitor. As her punishment her eyes were gauged out and she was stabbed in the throat.#WaldysGuideToSaints

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1/ John The Baptist - Pops up various guises, but is often a young shepherd who's lost his clothes. Usually sports an extra thin cross and an animal skin from his hermit days. If he's already met Salome, then all that's left of him is his head on a platter.

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