Ginés de la Jara 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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• Cartagena
• Spain
• sailors
• vintners
• agricultural laborers
• invoked against hernias
• storms

canonized

1541

Pope Paul III

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