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

References[]

External links[]

• Patron Saints for Chronic and Incurable Illnesses
• Saints.sqpn.com/