The Chieresi dyers have a Patron Saint: San Benedetto, who, apart from his name, has nothing to do with the monarch who invented the rule of "Ora et labora". There is no accurate information about the San Benedetto we are talking about. His relics (there is even a vase with traces of blood in it) are kept in the Church of San Bernardino (himself Patron of weavers and wool merchants), in Piazza Cavour. An archived document that decrees the founding of the "Pia società di San Benedetto matire" (The Pious Society of San Benedetto the Martyr) and dated the 5^th May 1847 confirms the authenticity of these. The relics were donated by the Chierese priest Don Francesco Calosso to the Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of Jesus: their origin is unknown but the fact that they have been classified as belonging to a martyr makes one think that they could have come from a Roman catacomb. It was the Chierese dyers, however, that asked for this Saint, about which very little is known, to be elected as their protector; and the petition was passed by the Archbishop of Turin Luigi Frasoni. The Chierese San Benedetto joins the long line-up of Patron Saints of traditions connected with weaving: Genoveffa (upholsterers), Sebastiano and Gregorio Magno ("passamanai"), Biagio (wool-carders), Barnaba and Eustachio (weavers), Anna (lace-makers), San Luigi IX of France (embroideresses), Caterina d'Alessandria (spinstresses).