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Filed in Germany, Log, biking, June 29, 2006, 10:10 am , , ,

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because prayer to them was thought to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This group of Nothelfer (emergency helpers) originated in the 14th century at first in the Rhineland, largely as a result of the epidemic (probably of bubonic plague) [...]