Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers
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This is a list of patron saints of ailments, illnesses, and dangers.
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
- Alphonsa–against diseases in the feet
- Alphonsus Liguori – arthritis
- 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
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
C[]
- Caesarius of Terracina - invoked against drowning, flooding, and for the good success of Caesarean section
- Cajetan – invoked against illegal gamblings
- Castulus – invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.[11]
- Catherine of Vadstena – against abortion, miscarriage[12]
- 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.[13]
- Crescentinus – headache
- Cyriacus – eye disease
D[]
- Damien of Molokai – leprosy HIV and AIDS
- Defendens – invoked against wolves and fires[14]
- Deicolus – childhood illnesses
- Denise – against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents[15][16]
- Deodatus of Nevers – against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague[17]
- Dometius of Persia – invoked against sciatica[18]
- Domninus of Fidenza – rabies[19]
- Dymphna – sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness
E[]
- Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia - patron saint of pandemics[20]
- Emygdius of Ascoli – invoked against earthquakes[21]
- Engelmund of Velsen – invoked against toothache[22]
- Epipodius – victims of betrayal and of torture[23]
- Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo – invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour[24]
- Eurosia – invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning[25]
- Expeditus – invoked against procrastination[26]
F[]
- Fiacre – Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
- Fillan – mental illness
- Florian – invoked against fire, floods and drowning[27]
- Four Holy Marshals – epidemics, diseases[28]
- Fourteen Holy Helpers – epidemics, bubonic plague or the Black Death
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
- Genesius of Rome – actors, clowns, comedians, comics, converts, dancers, musicians, stenographers, printers, lawyers, epileptics, thieves, torture victims[29]
- Gerard of Lunel – invoked against epilepsy[30] and headaches[31]
- Gerard Majella – pregnancy
- Gereon – headaches, migraine
- Gertrude of Nivelles – invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
- Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo – invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases[32]
- Godelina – throat trouble[33]
- Gotthard of Hildesheim – invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.[34]
- Gratus of Aosta – against lightning; fear of insects[35]
- Guy of Anderlecht – invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions[36]
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
- Hubertus - Rabies
- Hugh of Cluny – fever
- Hyacinth – those in danger of drowning
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, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses.[37]
- Joseph of Anchieta – of those who suffer scoliosis
- Jude Thaddaeus – lost causes, desperate situations
- Julia of Corsica – pathologies of the hands and the feet
- Juliana of Nicomedia – childbirth, sickness
K[]
- Kentigern – against bullies and verbal abuse
L[]
- Lorenzo Ruiz – poor, immigrants, migrant workers, separated families
- Leodegar (Saint Mungo) – blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes
- Liborius of Le Mans – against gallstones, colic[38]
- Lucy of Syracuse – haemorrhage, eye complaints
M[]
- Macrina the Elder – poverty
- Mammes – protector of sufferers from broken bones and hernias
- Marciana of Mauretania – invoked to cure wounds[39]
- St. Marciana of Toledo – curing of wounds
- Marculf – scrofula, diseases of the skin
- Mary Magdalene – people ridiculed for their piety, penitent sinners, prostitutes, repentance, sexual temptation
- Maria Goretti – victims of rape, crime victims, invoked against pedophiles.
- Martin of Tours – alcoholism
- Matthias – alcoholism, smallpox
- Maturinus – invoked against mental illness and infertility[40]
- St. Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
- Maximilian Kolbe – drug addiction
- Maximin of Trier – invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains[41]
- St. Medard – toothache
- St. Michael the Archangel – against danger at sea, against temptations, holy death, sick people, storms at sea, police officers.
- Miliau – against rheumatism
N[]
- Natalia of Nicomedia – plague, epilepsy
- Nonnosus – diseases of the kidneys, invoked against physical defects, back pains, and school-related students' crises[42]
O[]
- Saint Olaf – difficult marriage
- Saint Ovidius – auditory conditions and diseases[43]
P[]
- Pacificus of San Severino – chronic pain[44]
- Paraskevi of Rome – protectress of blind people[45]
- Patroclus of Troyes – demons, fever[46]
- Peregrine of Auxerre – against snake bites[47]
- Saint Peregrine Laziosi – cancer
- Saint Peter – involved against criminals
- Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – those who serve the sick[48]
- Saint Paulina – Diabetics
- Pancras – cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury
- Pharaildis – childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse[49]
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – Stress relief and New year blues
- Polycarp – earache, dysentery[50]
- Potamiana – protector of rape victims[51]
Q[]
- Saint Quentin – coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.[52]
- Quirinus of Neuss – invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout[53]
- Quiteria – against rabies[54]
R[]
- Rasso – invoked against stomach pains, especially in children[55]
- Regina – against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims[56]
- Reinildis – to cure open wounds, against eye diseases[57][58]
- Reverianus – invoked against drought[59]
- Roch – invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases[60]
- Rita of Cascia – lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse[61]
S[]
- Sebaldus – against cold and cold weather[62]
- Sebastian - against plague
- Scholastica – convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain[63]
- Servatius – invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice[64]
- Silvia – invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children[65]
- Sithney – invoked against rabies[66]
- Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt – angina
- Symphorian – syphilis, eye troubles[67]
T[]
- Theobald of Provins – invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks[68]
- Trophimus of Arles – against drought[69]
- Tryphon – against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts[70][page needed]
U[]
- Ubald – migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Urban of Langres – invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness[71]
- Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne – invoked against stiff neck[72]
- Ursus of Aosta – faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism[73]
V[]
- Valentine – fainting, plague, epilepsy[74]
- Victor of Marseilles – invoked against lightning[75]
- Vitalis of Assisi – diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals[76]
- Vitus – Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping
W[]
- Walter of Pontoise – invoked against stress[77]
- Wilgefortis – people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.[78]
- William Firmatus – against headache[79]
- Willibrord – convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
- Winnoc – fever, whooping cough[80]
- Wulfram of Sens – for protection against the dangers of the sea.
See also[]
- Patron saints of occupations and activities
- Patron saints of places
- Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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