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Noun: hagionym
  1. The name of a Saint taken as a proper name
    "This Native place name was used for a while in parallel with the hagionym Saint-François-Xavier (1850s) as well as another ‘official’ toponym, Grantown, named after Cuthbert Grant"

Type of: anonym, nom de guerre, pseudonym

Encyclopedia: Hagionym