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TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint. Despite repeated prohibitions by the Catholic Church, the cult of this dog saint persisted for several centuries, with the last known visit to the Saint occurring in the 1940s

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