Patron Saints
Can. 1186 To foster the sanctification of the people of God, the Church commends to the special and filial veneration of Christ's faithful the Blessed Mary ever-Virgin, the Mother of God, whom Christ constituted the Mother of all. The Church also promotes the true and authentic cult of the other Saints, by whose example the faithful are edified and by whose intercession they are supported.
Can. 1187 Only those servants of God may be venerated by public cult who have been numbered by ecclesiastical authority among the Saints or the Blessed.
Code of Canon Law
Title IV: The Cult of the Saints, of Sacred Images and of Relics
1186-1187
Here you will find some of the more popular Patron Saints organized by name.
A | |
| Adelard | gardener |
| Agatha | bellmakers, breast disease, fire prevention, nurses |
| Agnes | Children of Mary, girls |
| Albert the Great | medical technicians, scientists, universal Church |
| Alexis of Rome | beggars |
| Aloysius Gonzaga | Catholic youth, teenagers, youth |
| Alphonsus Liguori | vocations, theologians |
| Amand | hotelkeepers, vintners |
| Ambrose | bee keepers, candle makers, learning |
| Anastasia | weavers, widows |
| Anastasius | goldsmiths |
| Andrew | fishermen |
| Andronicus | silversmiths |
| Angelico (BL) | artists |
| Anne | Christian mothers, Canada, housewives, pregnant women, women in labor |
| Ansovinus | crops |
| Anthony of Padua | barren women, lost articles, poor, travelers |
| Anthony the Abbot | basket makers, butchers, gravediggers |
| Antony | domestic animals |
| Apollonia | dentists |
| Augustine of Hippo | brewers, printers, theologians |
B | |
| Barbara | architects, artillerymen, builders, fire prevention, miners, thunder-storms |
| Bartholomew | leather workers, plasterers |
| Benedict | kidney disease, poison sufferers, students |
| Benedict Joseph Labre | homeless |
| Benedict the Moor | African-Americans, Negro missions in North America |
| Benezet | bridge builders |
| Bernadette | against bodily ills, shepherds |
| Bernadine of Siena | public relations |
| Bernard of Montjoux | alpinists, skiers |
| Blaise | throat ailments, veterinarians, wild animals |
| Blessed Virgin Mary | Uruguay |
| Brendan | sailors |
| Bridget | healers, Sweden |
| Brigid of Ireland | dairy workers, scholars |
C | |
| Camillus de Lellis | hospitals, nurses, sick |
| Casimir of Poland | bachelors |
| Catherine of Alexandria | millers, philosophers, preachers, scribes, secretaries, stenographers, students |
| Catherine of Bologna | art, artists |
| Catherine of Siena | fire prevention, Italy |
| Catherine of Sweden | miscarriage prevention |
| Cecilia | musicians |
| Charles Borromeo | catechists, seminarians |
| Christopher | bookbinders, epilepsy, gardeners, mariners, pestilence, thunder-storms, travelers |
| Clare | embroiderers, eye disorders, television |
| Claude | sculptors |
| Clement I | marble workers |
| Columba | poets, Ireland |
| Contardo Ferrini (BL) | universities |
| Cosmas & Damian | barbers, druggists, pharmacists, physicians, surgeons |
| Cyril | unity of East & West Churches |
D | |
| David | doves, poets, Wales |
| Denis | against headaches |
| Didacus | Franciscan Lay |
| Dismas | prisoners |
| Dominic de Guzman | astronomers |
| Dominic Savio | choir boys, falsly accused people |
| Dunstan | goldsmiths, blacksmiths, musicians |
| Dymphna | neurological disorders, epilepsy, mentally ill |
E | |
| Edward the Confessor | difficult marriages |
| Eligius | jewelers, metalworkers |
| Elizabeth Ann Seton | death of children, in-law problems, loss of parents, widows |
| Elizabeth of Hungary | bakers |
| Elizabeth of Portugal | against adultery, againt jealousy, war |
| Elmo | ammunition, explosive workers, ordnance, sailors, women in labor |
| Eustachius | hunters |
F | |
| Felicity | barren women |
| Ferdinand III | engineers, govenors |
| Fiacre | cab drivers, gardeners, taxi drivers |
| Florian | fire fighters, floods, Poland |
| Frances of Rome | motorists, widows, wives |
| Frances Xavier Cabrini | emigrants, immigrants |
| Francis de Sales | authors, deaf, journalists, writers |
| Francis of Assisi | animals, ecologists, merchants |
| Francis of Paola | sailors |
| Francis Xavier | missions (foreign) |
G | |
| Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows | clerics, youth |
| Gabriel the Archangel | broadcasters, communication, messengers, postal workers, radio |
| Gemma Galgani | druggists, pharmacists |
| Genesius | actors, epilepsy, musicians, printers, secretaries, stenographers, theatrical performers |
| Geneviève | disasters, Paris |
| George | Boy Scouts, England, soldiers |
| Gerard Majella | childbirth, expectant mothers, pregnant women |
| Gertrude | rats and mice (fear of), travelers |
| Bl. Gianna Beretta Molla | mothers, physicians |
| Giles | beggars, breast feeding, disabled, poor |
| Godeberta | drought relief, epidemics |
| Gregory the Great | musicians, singers, students, teachers |
H | |
| Herbert of Derwentwater | drought relief |
| Hilary of Poitiers | snake bite victims |
| Holy Innocents | babies, choir boys, foundlings |
| Hubert | dogs, hunters |
I | |
| Ignatius of Antioch | throat ailments |
| Ignatius of Loyola | retreats, soldiers |
| Immaculate Conception of Mary | United States |
| Isidore the Farmer | laborers, farmers |
| Isidore of Seville | computers, computer users, computer programmers, Internet |
J | |
| James the Apostle | arthritis, Chile, hatmakers, laborers, milliners, rheumatism |
| Januarius | blood banks, Naples, volcanoes |
| Jacinta Marta | bodily ills, prisoners |
| Jerome | librarians, students |
| Jerome Emiliani | orphans |
| Joan of Arc | France, rape victims, soldiers |
| John-Baptist de la Salle | teachers |
| John Berchmans | altar servers, youth |
| John Bosco | boys, editors, students, youth |
| John Chrysostom | epilepsy, orators, preachers, speakers |
| John of Capistrano | judges, jurists |
| John of God | booksellers, fire fighters, heart patients, hospitals, nurses, printers, publishers, sick |
| John of the Cross | contemplatives, mystics |
| John of Nepomuk | discretion, floods, slander |
| John the Apostle | poison sufferers, writers |
| John the Baptist | Baptism, lambs |
| John Vianney | priests |
| Joseph | Canada, carpenters, church, dying, fathers, Peru, social justice, universal church |
| Joseph of Arimathea | funeral directors, undertakers |
| Joseph of Cupertino | air travelers, astronauts, aviators |
| Josemaría Escrivá | diabetics |
| Jude Thaddeus | desperate causes & situations, lost causes |
| Justin | apologists, lecturers, philosophers |
K | |
| Kevin | blackbirds, Ireland |
L | |
| Lawrence | cooks, comedians, fire prevention, France, poor |
| Leonard of Port Maurice | parish missions |
| Lidwina | skaters |
| Louis IX | barbers |
| Louise de Marillac | social workers, widows |
| Lucy | blind, eye disorders |
| Luke | artists, brewers, butchers, doctors, glassworkers, painters, physicians, surgeons |
M | |
| Madron | cures from pain |
| Margaret | pregnant women |
| Margaret Mary Alacoque | against polio, polio sufferers |
| Margaret Clitherow | business women |
| Maria Faustina Kowalska | mercy |
| Maria Goretti | girls, rape victims, youth |
| Mark | lawyers, lions, notaries, prisoners |
| Martha | cooks, housewives, servants |
| Martin de Porres | barbers, hairdressers, racial harmony |
| Martin of Tours | France, horsemen, soldiers |
| Mary Magdalene | sinners |
| Maximilian Kolbe | political prisoners |
| Matthew | accountants, bankers, bookkeepers, tax collectors |
| Matthias | alcoholism, carpenters |
| Maurice | gout, cramps, infantrymen, swordsmiths |
| Medard | bad weather |
| Methodius | unity of East & West Churches |
| Michael | airborne, grocers, paratroopers, police officers |
| Monica | married women, mothers |
N | |
| Nicholas of Myra | bakers, brewers, brides, children, merchants, pawnbrokers, travelers |
| Nicholas of Tolentino | infants, mariners, souls in Purgatory |
| Notburga | servants |
O | |
| Odelia | blind |
| Osmund | paralysis |
| Our Lady of Guadalupe | Americas, Mexico |
| Our Lady of Loreto | aviators |
| Our Lady of Lourdes | bodily ills |
| Our Lady of Mt. Carmel | Chile |
| Our Lady of the Assumption | Paraguay |
P | |
| Padre Pio | civil defense volunteers |
| Patrick | engineers, Ireland, snakes (fear of) |
| Paul | snake bite victims |
| Paula | widows |
| Peregrine Laziosi | AIDS, cancer victims, skin disease |
| Perpetua | cows |
| Peter | fishermen, longevity, Popes, Rome |
| Peter Celestine | bookbinders |
| Peter Claver | African-Americans, Colombia, missions, Negro missions, slavery |
| Philip Neri | Rome, United States Army Special Forces |
| Philomena | children of Mary, impossible cases |
| Polycarp | earaches |
Q | |
R | |
| Raphael the Archangel | blind, love, travelers |
| Raymond Nonnatus | childbirth, expectant mothers, falsely accused, midwives |
| Raymond of Penyafort | canonists, lawyers |
| Rene Goupil | anesthetists |
| Rita of Cascia | impossible cases, unhappy marriages |
| Robert Bellarmine | canonists, catechists |
| Roch | dogs, dog lovers, epidemics, knee problems, invalids, pestilence |
| Rose of Lima | Americas, florists, Indies, Peru, Philippines |
S | |
| Sacred Heart | Ecuador |
| Sava | Serbian peoples |
| Scholastica | bad weather |
| Sebastian | archers, athletes |
| Solange | drought relief, rape victims |
| Stanislaus Kostka | broken bones, youth |
T | |
| Tarcisius | first communicants |
| Teresa of Avila | headaches |
| Therese of Lisieux | aviators, florists, missions, Russia |
| Thomas | architects |
| Thomas Aquinas | schools, students |
| Thomas More | civil servants, court clerks, government employees, lawyers |
| Timothy | stomach disorders |
U | |
V | |
| Valentine | greetings, lovers |
| Viator | catechists |
| Vincent de Paul | charities, volunteers |
| Vincent Ferrer | builders |
| Vincent of Saragossa | vintners, winegrowers |
| Vitus | comedians, dancers, epilepsy |
W | |
| Walburga | famine |
| Willibrord | epilepsy, Netherlands |
| Wolfgang | stomach disorders |
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Y | |
| Yves | lawyers |
Z | |
| Zita | domestic workers, lost keys, maids |
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