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Is there a Romany Gypsy saint?
« on: Sunday 16 December 18 23:25 GMT (UK) »
My father's family were Romany Gypsies living in England. There was a wooden carving of a saint hanging on the wall of his childhood home. My father couldn't remember much about it but he called it "Hojo." I'm wondering if he could have meant Hagio which is Greek for "saint, holy."

Has anyone ever heard of Hojo (not Howard Johnsons!) or know anything about a saint that was significant to Gypsies?

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Re: Is there a Romany Gypsy saint?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 16 December 18 23:34 GMT (UK) »
I googled it and it says Saint Sarah.

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BORCHARDT in Poland/Germany, BOSKOWITZ in Czechoslovakia, Hungary + Austria, BUSS in Baden, Germany + Switzerland, FEKETE in Hungary + Austria, GOTTHILF in Hammerstein + Berlin, GUBLER, GYSI, LABHARDT & RYCHNER in Switzerland, KONIG & KRONER in Germany, PLACZEK, WUNSCH & SILBERBERG in Poland.

Also: ROWSE in Brixham, Tenby, Hull & Ramsgate. Strongman, in Falmouth. Champion. Coke. Eame/s. Gibbons. Passmore. Pulsever. Sparkes in Brixham & Ramsgate. Toms in Cornwall. Waymoth. Wyatt.

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Re: Is there a Romany Gypsy saint?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 23 May 19 01:52 BST (UK) »
Saint Sara la Kali, yes. Also I think the Virgin Mary, & Saint Anne, Mary's mother.
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Re: Is there a Romany Gypsy saint?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 29 June 19 16:57 BST (UK) »
We always say saint Christopher as hes patron saint of travellers.
Casaubon (Geneva, London), Daulinge, Berners, McMullen (Nottingham), Tabb (Leics), Mycock (Derbys & Staffs), Gilbert (Notts), Price (s Wales), Krilovs/similar, gypsy Roberts, gypsy Clark, Bexell (Sussex), gypsy Elliott, Raven, Neligan (Co Kerry), Rymer, Newton (Hull).