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The city of San Diego in California is named after Saint Didacus of Alcalá, a fifteenth-century Spanish Franciscan lay brother who performed miraculous cures and whose body didn't decompose or smell bad when he died. He was canonized in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V.

He was called Saint Didacus of Alcalá after the city where he died, Alcalá de Henares,

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