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A list of patron saints of ailments, illness and dangers:

Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 J 10 K 11 L 12 M 13 N 14 O 15 P 16 Q 17 R 18 S 19 T 20 U 21 V 22 W 23 See also 24 Notes 25 External links

[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
• 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
• Apollinare - 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]
• 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]
• Domninus of Fidenza - rabies^[17]
• Dymphna - sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness

[edit] E

• Emygdius of Ascoli - invoked against earthquakes^[18]
• Engelmund of Velsen -invoked against toothache^[19]
• Epipodius - victims of betrayal and of torture^[20]
• Eurosia - invoked against storms, hailstorms, lightning^[21]
• Expeditus - invoked against procrastination^[22]

[edit] F

• Fiacre - Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
• Florian -invoked against fire, floods and drowning^[23]
• Four Holy Marshals - epidemics, diseases^[24]
• 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
• Gerard of Lunel -invoked against epilepsy^[25] and headaches^[26]
• Gereon -headaches, migraine
• Gertrude of Nivelles -invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
• Godelina -throat trouble^[27]
• Gotthard of Hildesheim -invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.^[28]
• Gratus of Aosta -against lightning; fear of insects^[29]
• Guy of Anderlecht - invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions^[30]

[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
• 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 unborn children^[31]
• 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

[edit] L

• Leodegar - blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes
• Liborius of Le Mans - against gallstones, colic^[32]
• 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^[33]
• Marculf - scrofula, diseases of the skin
• Maturinus - invoked against mental illness and infertility^[34]
• Saint Maurus - rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
• Maximilian Kolbe - drug addiction
• Maximin of Trier - invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains^[35]
• 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^[36]

[edit] O

• Saint Olaf - difficult marriage
• Saint Ovidius - auditory conditions and diseases^[37]

[edit] P

• Patroclus of Troyes- demons, fever^[38]
• Peregrine of Auxerre- against snake bites^[39]
• Saint Peregrine Laziosi - cancer, AIDS
• 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^[41]
• Potamiana - protectoress of rape victims^[42]

[edit] Q

• Saint Quentin - coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.^[43]
• Quirinus of Neuss -invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout^[44]
• Quiteria - against rabies^[45]

[edit] R

• Rasso - invoked against stomach pains, especially in children^[46]
• Regina -against poverty, impoverishment, shepherdesses, torture victims^[47]
• Reinildis -to cure open wounds, against eye diseases^[48][49]
• Roch - Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases^[50]
• Rita of Cascia - lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse^[51]

[edit] S

• Sebaldus -against cold and cold weather^[52]
• Scholastica - convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain^[53]
• Servatius - invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice^[54]
• Silvia - invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children^[55]
• Simon of Trent - torture and kidnap victims (no longer venerated)^[56]
• Sithney -invoked against rabies^[57])
• Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt - angina
• Symphorian - syphilis, eye troubles^[58]

[edit] T

• Teresa of Avila - headaches
• Theobald of Provins - invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; dry cough; infertility; panic attacks ^[59]
• Trophimus of Arles- against drought^[60]

[edit] U

• Ubald - migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
• Urban of Langres -invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness^[61]
• Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne - invoked against stiff neck^[62]
• Ursus of Aosta -faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism^[63]

[edit] V

• Victor of Marseilles - invoked against lightning^[64]
• Vitalis of Assisi - diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals^[65]
• Vitus - chorea/Saint Vitus' Dance, epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping

[edit] W

• Walter of Pontoise -invoked against stress^[66]
• Wilgefortis -people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.^[67]
• William Firmatus - against headache^[68]
• Willibrord - convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
• Winnoc - fever, whooping cough^[69]
• 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

1. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Agapitus
2. ^ Saints.SQPN.com: Saint Agatha
3. ^ St. Amabilis - Catholic Online
4. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Amabilis
5. ^ http://saints.sqpn.com/sainta06.htm
6. ^ http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90841
7. ^ http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainto09.htm
8. ^ http://saints.sqpn.com/saintb54.htm
9. ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 3
10. ^ Arduino, Fabio (30-Nov-2006). "San Besso". Santi e Beati. http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92044. Retrieved December 30, 2008. 
11. ^ Castulus (Kastulus) - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
12. ^ Cornelius - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
13. ^ San Defendente di Tebe
14. ^ ? (September 2001). "L'Abbaye de Flône". Cyberliege. http://cyberliege.be/tourisme/flone/index.shtml. Retrieved February 19, 2009. 
15. ^ ? (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. 
16. ^ Saints of June 19
17. ^ San Donnino di Fidenza
18. ^ http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainte16.htm.
19. ^ Saints of June 21
20. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Epipodius
21. ^ antropologia/santa orosia
22. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Expeditus
23. ^ S. D. Paramedics: The Patron Saint of the Fire Service: Saint Florian
24. ^ Vier Marschälle - Kathpedia
25. ^ Patron Saints for Chronic and Incurable Illness
26. ^ Patron Saints Index: Blessed Gerard of Lunel
27. ^ Godeleva (Godelina) von Gistel - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
28. ^ San Gottardo di Hildesheim
29. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Gratus of Aosta
30. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Guy of Anderlecht
31. ^ Saint Joseph
32. ^ Saints of July 23
33. ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0109.htm
34. ^ Saint Mathurin
35. ^ http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienM/Maximin.html
36. ^ Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Liturgical Press, 1995), 10.
37. ^ Sant' Audito (Ovidio) di Braga
38. ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0121.htm#patr
39. ^ La cathédrale Saint-Etienne d’Auxerre - 2. Saint Pèlerin
40. ^ Jones, Terry. "Pharaildis". Patron Saints Index. http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/saintp47.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-17. 
41. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
42. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Potamiaena
43. ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1031.htm#quen
44. ^ San Quirino
45. ^ ACI Prensa - Santos
46. ^ Rasso (Ratho) von Andechs - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
47. ^ Archdiocese of Regina - Ask a Sister
48. ^ "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. 
49. ^ "Sainte Renelde et comp.". Nominis. http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saints_9914.html. Retrieved 2007-02-21. 
50. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Roch
51. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Rita of Cascia
52. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Sebaldus
53. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Scholastica
54. ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 13
55. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Silvia
56. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Simon of Trent
57. ^ saintpatrickdc.org
58. ^ http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0822.htm
59. ^ "Theobald_von_Provins". Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon. ?. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienT/Theobald_von_Provins.html. Retrieved May 19, 2009. 
60. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Trophimus of Arles
61. ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 2
62. ^ Prayers to St. Ursicinus of Saint Ursanne
63. ^ Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 1
64. ^ Saints of July 21
65. ^ San Vitale di Assisi
66. ^ Annette Sandoval, The Directory of Saints: A Concise Guide to Patron Saints (Signet, 1997), 226.
67. ^ Ilse E. Friesen (2001). The Female Crucifix: Images of St. Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages, p47-8. ISBN 0-88920-365-2
68. ^ Rabenstein, Katherine (April 1999). "William Firmatus, Hermit (AC)". Saints O' the Day for April 24. http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0424.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-24. 
69. ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Winnoc

[edit] External links

• Patron Saints for Chronic and Incurable Illnesses