The process looks to me about as arbitrary as the way sub sandwiches get named at my local deli. John the Baptist is patron saint of (among other things) bird dealers; spasms and convulsions; Savannah ...

30 is St Andrew's Day. Who was St. Andrew and why is he patron saint of Scotland ... Andrew was first a disciple of John the Baptist (John 1:40), and when he recognized Jesus as the Messiah ...

This pilgrim souvenir depicts the head of John the Baptist who was patron saint of Perth, Scotland in the middle agesThis circular badge depicts the head of John the Baptist, patron saint of Perth.

This pilgrim souvenir depicts the head of John the Baptist who was patron saint of Perth, Scotland in the middle agesThis circular badge depicts the head of John the Baptist, patron saint of Perth.