Patron Saints by Occupation and Activity

A

↝ Adrian of Nicomedia – arms dealers, butchers, guards, soldiers
↝ Agatha – bakers, bellmaking, nurses
↝ Albertus Magnus – natural scientists
↝ Alexander of Comana – charcoal-burners
↝ Alexius – belt makers and nurses
↝ Aloysius Gonzaga – Catholic students, Jesuit scholastics
↝ Amand – bartenders, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners,
↝ Ambrose of Milan – beekeepers, beggars, candle-makers, chandlers, wax-melters and refiners
↝ Anastasius the Fuller – fullers
↝ Anastasia of Sirmium – weavers, healers, martyrs, exorcists
↝ Andrew the Apostle – fishmongers, fishermen
↝ Andrew Kim – clergy of Korea
↝ Anne – miners, mothers, equestrians, cabinet makers, homemakers, teachers, stablemen, French-Canadian voyageurs, and sailors
↝ Ansovinus – gardeners
↝ Anthony Mary Claret – weavers
↝ Anthony the Abbot – basket-makers, gravediggers, butchers, swineherds and motorists
↝ Anthony of Padua – those seeking lost items or people, nomadic travelers, brush makers, women seeking a husband
↝ Antipas – dentists
↝ Apollonia – dentists 
↝ Arnold of Soissons – brewers
↝ Arnulph – millers
↝ Augustine of Hippo – printers, brewers and theologians

B

↝ Barbara – miners, artillerymen, military engineers and firefighters, Italian marines,architects, builders, foundry workers, fireworks makers, service-men of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, mathematicians, geoscientist, stonemasons
↝ Bartholomew the Apostle – leatherworkers, plasterers, tanners, trappers, curriers
↝ Basil the Great – hospital administrators
↝ Basilides - Italian prison officers
↝ Basilissa - nursing mothers 
↝ Bede – historians and English writers
↝ Benedict of Nursia – farmers, farmhands, engineers, architects, Italian speleologists,students, husbandry, heraldry and officers of arms
↝ Bénézet – bridge-builders
↝ Benno – fishermen
↝ Bernadette of Lourdes – shepherds
↝ Bernardine of Feltre - pawnbrokers, bankers
↝ Bernardine of Siena – advertisers
↝ Bernard of Clairvaux – bee keepers, chandlers, advertisers, wax melters and refiners
↝ Bernard of Menthon – mountaineers, skiers
↝ Bernard of Vienne – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
↝ Bernward of Hildesheim – architects
↝ Blaise – veterinarians, wool combers and weavers, town criers
↝ Boethius – philosophy
↝ Bona of Pisa – flight attendants, travelers, specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims
↝ Botulph – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
↝ Brendan the Navigator – sailors, navigators, mariners, seafarers, those traveling by sea
↝ Brigid of Ireland – dairy workers, scholars, nuns, medicine/healers

C

↝ Cajetan – unemployed, gamblers, odd lot dealers, and of job seekers
↝ Camillus of Lellis – nurses, hospital workers
↝ Cassian of Imola – shorthand writers, stenographers, school teachers, parish clerks
↝ Catherine of Alexandria – tanners, librarians, students, philosophers, secretaries, scribes, stenographers, preachers, nurses
↝ Catherine of Siena – jurors, Italian nurses
↝ Cecilia – musicians
↝ Charles Borromeo – Catechists, seminarians
↝ Christina the Astonishing – millers, psychiatrists
↝ Christopher – travelers, bookbinders, gardeners, mariners, drivers, surfers, athletes, pilots
↝ Clare of Assisi – theatre performers, embroiderers, gilders, laundry workers, goldsmiths
↝ Claude – sculptors, secretaries
↝ Clement – marble-workers, tanners, mariners, stonecutters
↝ Columbanus – motorcyclists
↝ Cosmas – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers
↝ Crispin – tanners, shoemakers, cobblers, leatherworkers, curriers, saddle-makers
↝ Cuthbert – shepherds
↝ Cuthman – shepherds

D

↝ Damian – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers
↝ Dismas – undertakers
↝ Dominic – astronomers, astronomy,  scientists
↝ Dominic de la Calzada – civil engineers
↝ Dominic of Silos – shepherds
↝ Dorothea of Caesarea – florists, horticulture, brewers
↝ Drogo of Sebourg – coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, shepherds
↝ Dunstan – blacksmiths, goldsmiths, musicians, locksmiths
↝ Dymphna – mental health professionals, psychiatrists, therapists

E

↝ Edward the Confessor – kings
↝ Eligius – metal-workers, jewelers, mechanics, taxi drivers,  farriers,  harness makers,numismatists,Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers soldiers, veterinarians, farmers, farmhands, husbandry
↝ Elisabeth of Hungary – bakers, beggars, nursing services 
↝ Elizabeth Seton - sailors
↝ Erasmus of Formiae or Elmo – sailors, pyrotechnicians, steeplejacks, chimney sweeps and anyone who works at great heights
↝ Ephrem the Syrian – spiritual directors and spiritual leaders
↝ Eustachius – hunters, trappers, firefighters

F

↝ Ferdinand III – engineers
↝ Fiacre – gardeners, florists, herbalists, ploughboys, hosiers, pewterers, tilemakers, box-makers, taxi-drivers, drivers, gardeners, horticulturists
↝ Florian – firefighters, chimney sweeps
↝ Foillan – dentists, surgeons, truss-makers, children's nurses
↝ Frances of Rome – automobile drivers
↝ Francis de Sales – writers/authors, journalists
↝ Francis of Assisi – ecologists, merchants, animal welfare, and rights workers
↝ Francis Caracciolo – chefs
↝ Francis Xavier - missionary

G

↝ St. Gabriel the Archangel – communications workers, postal workers, broadcasters, messengers, radio/television workers, radiologists, diplomats, ambassadors, emergency dispatchers, police dispatchers
↝ Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows – students, seminarians, clerics
↝ Gangulphus – tanners, shoemakers
↝ Gemma Galgani – students, pharmacists
↝ Genesius – actors, comedians, clowns, dancers, theatrical performers of all kinds, also attorneys, barristers, lawyers
↝ George – agricultural workers, archers, armourers, Boy Scouts, butchers, cavalry, soldiers, Crusaders, equestrians, horsemen, husbandry, knights, saddle makers, shepherds, Teutonic Knights (policemen and firefighters in Brazil)
↝ Saint Gerard Majella- Patron of Expectant Mothers; safe delivery
↝ Germaine Cousin – shepherdesses
↝ Giles – beggars, spur makers
↝ Gregory the Great – teachers
↝ Gottschalk – linguists, princes, translators
↝ Gummarus – lumberjacks
↝ René Goupil – anaesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists 

H

↝Helena - new discoveries
↝ Hervé – bards, musicians
↝ Homobonus – businessmen, tailors, and clothworkers
↝ Honorius of Amiens(Honoratus) – bakers, confectioners, bakers of altar bread, candle-makers, florists, flour merchants, oil refiners, and pastry chefs
↝ Hubertus – hunters, furriers
↝ Hunna – laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen

I

↝ Isidore the Farmer – farmers, farmhands, husbandry, manual laborers
↝ Isidore of Seville – computer scientists, software engineers, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students
↝ Ignatius of Loyola – Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Educators and Education.

J

↝ Jadwiga of Poland – queens
↝ James, son of Zebedee – veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists, traveler, pilgrimage
↝ James, son of Alphaeus – pharmacists
↝ Jerome – librarians,[19] translators, spectacle makers
↝ Joan of Arc – Soldiers
↝ John the Almoner – Knights Hospitaller
↝ John the Apostle – tanners
↝ John the Baptist – farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller
↝ John of Damascus – makers of images of the crucifix
↝ John the Evangelist – editors, authors, art dealers, tanners, and theologians
↝ John of God – hospital workers, nurses, booksellers
↝ John Baptist de la Salle – teachers of youth
↝ John Berchmans – altar servers
↝ John Bosco – apprentices, editors, printers/publishers
↝ John Gualbert – foresters
↝ John Vianney – priests
↝ Joseph – cabinetmakers, carpenters, craftsmen, laborers, traveler, workers, and working people
↝ Joseph of Arimathea – funeral directors, tinsmiths
↝ Joseph of Cupertino – air travelers, aviators, astronauts, test takers, poor students
↝ John of Capistrano – jurists
↝ Jude (also known as Jude Thaddeus) – police officers, hospital workers, lost (or impossible) causes
↝ Julian the Hospitaller – shepherds, boatmen
↝ Justa and Rufina – potters

K

↝ Kateri – ecologists, environmentalists, thomasites

L

↝ Lawrence – librarians, archivists, students, tanners, cooks, comedians.
↝ Leodegar – millers
↝Lidwina – ice skaters
↝ Lucy - authors, cutlers, glaziers, labourers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers.
↝ Luke the Evangelist – doctors, surgeons, artists, painters, notaries

M

↝ Madeleine Sophie Barat
↝ Marcellin Champagnat – education and teachers
↝ Margaret of Antioch – nurses
↝ Martha – dieticians, cooks
↝ Mary Magdalene – tanners, hairdressers, pharmacists.
↝ Magnus of Avignon – fish dealers, fishmongers
↝ Albertus Magnus – chemists, medical technicians
↝ Macarius of Unzha, Venerable – craftsmen, merchants, travelers
↝ Malo – pig-keepers
↝ Martin of Tours – soldiers
↝ Matthew – accountants, tax collectors, bankers, bookkeepers, joiners, custom agents, security guards, perfumers
↝ Matthias – carpenters, tailors
↝ Maturinus – comic actors, jesters, clowns, sailors (in Brittany), tinmen (in Paris) and of plumbers.
↝ Maurice and Lydia – dyers
↝ Maurice – infantrymen
↝ St. Michael the Archangel – soldiers, paramedics, paratroopers, police officers, security officers

N

↝ Nicholas of Myra – sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, the falsely accused, brewers, pawnbrokers and students in various cities and countries around Europe
↝ Nicholas of Tolentine – Mariners
↝ Notburga – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

O

↝ Our Lady of Salambao – fishermen
↝ Our Lady of Loreto – aviators

P

↝ Pantaleon – doctors, midwives, physicians
↝ Patrick – engineers
↝ Paul the Apostle – hospital public relations
↝ Peter the Apostle – popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, bridge builders, cloth makers
↝ Peter of Alcantara – guards
↝ Peter Damian – traceurs/freerunners
↝ Phocas the Gardener – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
↝ Pope John XXIII – Papal delegates
↝ Pope Celestine V – bookbinders
↝ Piran – tinners, tin miners
↝ Philip – Special Forces, pastry chefs

Q

↝ Quentin – bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, surgeons

R

↝ St. Raphael the Archangel – doctors, pharmacists, nurses, shepherds, matchmakers, travelers
↝ Raymond Nonnatus – midwives, obstetricians
↝ Raymond of Penyafort – medical record librarians, Canon lawyers
↝ Rebekah – physicists
↝ Regina – shepherdesses
↝ John Regis – medical social workers
↝ Reinold – Stonemasons
↝ Robert Bellarmine – Catechists
↝ Roch – surgeons, tile-makers, second-hand dealers, gravediggers
↝ Rose of Lima – embroiderers, gardeners

S

↝ Sebastian – soldiers, athletes
↝ Severus of Avranches – silk and wool makers, drapers; milliners and hatters
↝ Simon – tanners
↝ Solange – shepherdesses
↝ Stephen – bricklayers, casketmakers, deacons, altar servers

T

↝ Tarcisius - altar servers
↝ Tatiana of Rome – students
↝ Theobald of Provins – farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, beltmakers, charcoal-burners
↝ Thérèse of Lisieux – florists, aviators, missionaries
↝ Teresa of Ávila- lace workers, chess
↝ Teresa of Calcutta – missionaries
↝ Thomas – architects, politicians, land surveyors
↝ Thomas Aquinas – students, teachers, academics
↝ Thomas Becket – diocesan priests
↝ Thomas More – politicians, statesmen, lawyers, civil servants, court clerks

U

↝ Urban of Langres – vine-growers, vine-dressers, gardeners, vintners, and coopers
↝ Ursula – archers, orphans, students

V

↝ Valentine – beekeeping
↝ Verena – lighthouse keepers
↝ Veronica – laundry workers; photographers
↝ Vincent of Saragossa – winemakers, vinegarmakers
↝ Vincent de Paul – volunteers
↝ Vincent Ferrer – builders
↝ Vitus – comedians, dancers

W

↝ Walstan – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
↝ Winnoc – millers
↝ Wolbodo – students
↝ Wolfgang of Regensburg – woodworkers, woodcarvers

X

↝ Frances Xavier Cabrini – hospital administrators. Immigrants

Y

↝ Yves – lawyers

Z

↝ Zeno of Verona – fishermen
↝ Zita – domestic servants, waiters

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