Patron saints of ailments, illness and dangers
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A list of patron saints of ailments, illness and dangers:
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[edit] A
- Abd-al-Masih - sterile women (in Syria)
- Saint Abel - patron of the blind and the lame
- Abhai - poisonous reptiles
- Agapitus of Palestrina -invoked against colic[1]
- Agatha - breast cancer[2]
- Agathius - headache
- Agricola of Avignon - bubonic plague, misfortunes
- Agrippina of Mineo - invoked against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections
- Albinus of Angers - against pirate attack
- Aloysius Gonzaga - the blind
- Amabilis of Riom - invoked against fire, snakes, and snake bites[3]; also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts[4]
- Andrew Avellino - sudden death
- Andrew Corsini - riot, civil disorder
- Anthony - skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire[5]
- Anthony of Padua - Missing people and lost things
- Apollinaris - epilepsy, gout
- Apollonia - toothache
- Arthelais - kidnapping, illness
- Aspren - invoked against migraine[6]
- Audoin (Ouen) -deafness[7]
- Augustine of Hippo - sore eyes
- Adrian of Nicomedia - plague, epilepsy
[edit] B
- Balbina - scrofula[8]
- Berlinda of Meerbeke- invoked against cattle diseases[9]
- Bernardino of Siena - chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions
- Bessus - protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility.[10]
- Blaise - ailments of the throat
[edit] C
- Castulus -invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.[11]
- Catherine of Vadstena -against abortion, miscarriage
- Christina the Astonishing -against insanity, mental disorders
- Coloman - plague, sick horses, against hanging
- Conrad of Piacenza -against hernias
- Cornelius - invoked against epilepsy, cramps, afflictions associated with the nerves and ears.[12]
- Crescentinus - headache
- Cyriacus - eye disease
[edit] D
- Damien of Molokai - leprosy
- Defendens - invoked against wolves and fires[13]
- Deicolus - childhood illnesses
- Denise -against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents[14][15]
- Deodatus of Nevers - against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague[16]
- Dometius of Persia -invoked against sciatica[17]
- Domninus of Fidenza - rabies[18]
- Dymphna - sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness
[edit] E
- Emygdius of Ascoli - invoked against earthquakes[19]
- Engelmund of Velsen -invoked against toothache[20]
- Epipodius - victims of betrayal and of torture[21]
- Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo - invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour[22]
- Eurosia - invoked against storms, hailstorms, lightning[23]
- Expeditus - invoked against procrastination[24]
[edit] F
- Fiacre - Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
- Fillan - mental illness
- Florian - invoked against fire, floods and drowning[25]
- Four Holy Marshals - epidemics, diseases[26]
- Fourteen Holy Helpers - epidemics, bubonic plague or the Black Death
[edit] G
- Gangulphus - eye and skin conditions; knee pains; invoked against adultery and marital difficulties
- Gemma Galgani - invoked against spinal injuries, back pain, headaches, loss of parents
- Gerard of Lunel -invoked against epilepsy[27] and headaches[28]
- Gerard Majella - pregnancy
- Gereon - headaches, migraine
- Gertrude of Nivelles - invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
- Godelina -throat trouble[29]
- Gotthard of Hildesheim - invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.[30]
- Gratus of Aosta - against lightning; fear of insects[31]
- Guy of Anderlecht - invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions[32]
[edit] H
- Hemma of Gurk -invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye
- Hermes - mental illnesses
- Harvey -eye problems, eye disease
- Hippolytus of Rome - sick horses
- Saint Holos - general health and healing
- Hugh of Cluny - fever
- Hyacinth - those in danger of drowning
[edit] J
- James the Great - rheumatism
- John of Bridlington - women in difficult labor
- Joseph - against doubt, against hesitation, dying people, expectant mothers, happy death, holy death, interior souls, people in doubt, people who fight Communism, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses.[33]
- Jude Thaddaeus - lost causes, desperate situations
- Julia of Corsica - pathologies of the hands and the feet
- Juliana of Nicomedia - childbirth, sickness
[edit] K
- Kentigern -against bullies and verbal abuse
[edit] L
- Leodegar - blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes
- Liborius of Le Mans - against gallstones, colic[34]
- Lucy of Syracuse - haemorrhage, eye complaints
[edit] M
- Macrina - poverty
- Mammes -protector of sufferers from broken bones and hernias
- Marciana of Mauretania -invoked to cure wounds[35]
- Marculf - scrofula, diseases of the skin
- Martin of Tours - Soldiers, Beggars, Alcoholics
- Maturinus - invoked against mental illness and infertility[36]
- Saint Maurus - rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
- Maximilian Kolbe - drug addiction
- Maximin of Trier - invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains[37]
- Saint Medard - toothache
- Miliau -against rheumatism
[edit] N
- Natalia of Nicomedia - plague, epilepsy
- Nonnosus -diseases of the kidneys, invoked against physical defects, back pains, and school-related students' crises[38]
[edit] O
- Saint Olaf - difficult marriage
- Saint Ovidius - auditory conditions and diseases[39]
[edit] P
- Paraskevi of Rome -protectress of blind people[40]
- Patroclus of Troyes- demons, fever[41]
- Peregrine of Auxerre- against snake bites[42]
- Saint Peregrine Laziosi - cancer
- Saint Paulina - Diabetics
- Pancras - cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury
- Pharaildis - childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse[40]
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina - Stress relief and New year blues
- Polycarp - earache, dysentery[43]
- Potamiana - protectoress of rape victims[44]
[edit] Q
- Saint Quentin - coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.[45]
- Quirinus of Neuss -invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout[46]
- Quiteria - against rabies[47]
[edit] R
- Rasso - invoked against stomach pains, especially in children[48]
- Regina -against poverty, impoverishment, shepherdesses, torture victims[49]
- Reinildis -to cure open wounds, against eye diseases[50][51]
- Roch - Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases[52]
- Rita of Cascia - lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse[53]
[edit] S
- Sebaldus -against cold and cold weather[54]
- Scholastica - convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain[55]
- Servatius - invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice[56]
- Silvia - invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children[57]
- Simon of Trent - torture and kidnap victims (no longer venerated)[58]
- Sithney -invoked against rabies[59])
- Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt - angina
- Symphorian - syphilis, eye troubles[60]
[edit] T
- Theobald of Provins - invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; dry cough; infertility; panic attacks [61]
- Trophimus of Arles- against drought[62]
- Tryphon -against infestations of rodents and locusts[63]
[edit] U
- Ubald - migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Urban of Langres -invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness[64]
- Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne - invoked against stiff neck[65]
- Ursus of Aosta -faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism[66]
[edit] V
- Victor of Marseilles - invoked against lightning[67]
- Vitalis of Assisi - diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals[68]
- Vitus - chorea/Saint Vitus' Dance, epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping
[edit] W
- Walter of Pontoise -invoked against stress[69]
- Wilgefortis -people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.[70]
- William Firmatus - against headache[71]
- Willibrord - convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
- Winnoc - fever, whooping cough[72]
- Wulfram of Sens is called upon for protection against the dangers of the sea.
[edit] See also
- Patron saints of occupations and activities
- Patron saints of places
- Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[edit] Notes
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Agapitus
- ^ Saints.SQPN.com: Saint Agatha
- ^ St. Amabilis - Catholic Online
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Amabilis
- ^ http://saints.sqpn.com/sainta06.htm
- ^ http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90841
- ^ http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainto09.htm
- ^ http://saints.sqpn.com/saintb54.htm
- ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 3
- ^ Arduino, Fabio (30-Nov-2006). "San Besso". Santi e Beati. http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92044. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- ^ Castulus (Kastulus) - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
- ^ Cornelius - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
- ^ San Defendente di Tebe
- ^ ? (September 2001). "L'Abbaye de Flône". Cyberliege. http://cyberliege.be/tourisme/flone/index.shtml. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ ? (2003). "Le site officiel du Comité des Fêtes de Yernawe". Le Comité des Fêtes de Yernawe.. http://www.yernawe.be/quartier1.htm. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ Saints of June 19
- ^ Sean Kelly, Rosemary Rogers, Saints preserve us!: Everything you need to know about every saint you'll ever need (Random House, Inc., 1993), 78.
- ^ San Donnino di Fidenza
- ^ http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainte16.htm.
- ^ Saints of June 21
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Epipodius
- ^ [1]
- ^ antropologia/santa orosia
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Expeditus
- ^ S. D. Paramedics: The Patron Saint of the Fire Service: Saint Florian
- ^ Vier Marschälle - Kathpedia
- ^ Patron Saints for Chronic and Incurable Illness
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Blessed Gerard of Lunel
- ^ Godeleva (Godelina) von Gistel - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
- ^ San Gottardo di Hildesheim
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Gratus of Aosta
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Guy of Anderlecht
- ^ Saint Joseph
- ^ Saints of July 23
- ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0109.htm
- ^ Saint Mathurin
- ^ http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienM/Maximin.html
- ^ Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Liturgical Press, 1995), 10.
- ^ Sant' Audito (Ovidio) di Braga
- ^ a b "Saint Parasceva of Rome". Patron Saints Index. 2010. http://saints.sqpn.com/saintp33.htm. Retrieved March 31, 2010.
- ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0121.htm#patr
- ^ La cathédrale Saint-Etienne d’Auxerre - 2. Saint Pèlerin
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Potamiaena
- ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1031.htm#quen
- ^ San Quirino
- ^ ACI Prensa - Santos
- ^ Rasso (Ratho) von Andechs - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
- ^ Archdiocese of Regina - Ask a Sister
- ^ "Stocks, Relics and... 'Tarte al Djote'". Office de Promotion du Tourisme de Wallonie et de Bruxelles. June 2006. http://www.opt.be/informations/suggestions/en/O/48872.html. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ^ "Sainte Renelde et comp.". Nominis. http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saints_9914.html. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Roch
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Rita of Cascia
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Sebaldus
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Scholastica
- ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 13
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Silvia
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Simon of Trent
- ^ saintpatrickdc.org
- ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0822.htm
- ^ "Theobald_von_Provins". Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon. ?. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienT/Theobald_von_Provins.html. Retrieved May 19, 2009.
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Trophimus of Arles
- ^ Parry, Ken; David Melling (editors) (1999). The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-23203-6.
- ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 2
- ^ Prayers to St. Ursicinus of Saint Ursanne
- ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 1
- ^ Saints of July 21
- ^ San Vitale di Assisi
- ^ Annette Sandoval, The Directory of Saints: A Concise Guide to Patron Saints (Signet, 1997), 226.
- ^ Ilse E. Friesen (2001). The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages, p47-8. ISBN 0-88920-365-2
- ^ Rabenstein, Katherine (April 1999). "William Firmatus, Hermit (AC)". Saints O' the Day for April 24. Archived from the original on 2007-02-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20070206174334/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0424.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Winnoc
