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> >And let us not forget St Op, patron saint of crossroads; > >nor the holy St Igmata. > > > >Bill. > This is the St Op who is portrayed in art with a red octagonal shield on which her name is printed in white uppercase letters? Do we see here perhaps an conflation of Hecate, who was worshipped at crossroads, with Ops, who as a deity of fertility and wealth was also a chthonic figure, giving her name to a saint? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%