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What is a patroness?

What is a patroness? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A woman who sponsors or supports a given activity, person etc.; a female patron.
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As virgin patroness of the canons at Chich, Osith here joins a pantheon of elite women, both in terms of her companion texts and the manuscript's users.
It was written at the court of Marie de Champaigne, influential patroness of the arts.
The Empress lives on as a spiritual guide and patroness of our present day Shih Tzu.
She ends up as a patroness of the arts because she enjoys posing for a nude statue.
The date chosen by the Council is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Pope John Paul II has designated as the patroness of the Americas.
By the 7th century the rule had been applied to women, as nuns, whose patroness was deemed Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict.

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