Patron Saints of Ailments, Illness, 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
➸ Agatha – breast cancer
➸ 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
➸ Amabilis of Riom – invoked against fire, snakes, and snake bites; also invoked against
      demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts
➸ Andrew Avellino – sudden death
➸ Andrew Corsini – riot, civil disorder
➸ Anthony – skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire
➸ Anthony of Padua – Missing people and lost things
➸ Apollinaris – epilepsy, gout
➸ Apollonia – toothache
➸ Arthelais – kidnapping, illness
➸ Aspren – invoked against migraine
➸ Audoin (Ouen) – deafness
➸ Augustine of Hippo – sore eyes
➸ Adrian of Nicomedia – plague, epilepsy

B

➸ Balbina – scrofula
➸ Berlinda of Meerbeke – invoked against cattle diseases
➸ Bernardino of Siena – chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions
➸ Bessus – protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility.
➸ Blaise – ailments of the throat

C

➸ Cajetan – invoked against illegal gamblings
➸ Castulus – invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.
➸ Catherine of Vadstena – against abortion, miscarriage
➸ Chad of Mercia – against the losers, defeats, disappointed and unsuccessful.
➸ 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.
➸ Crescentinus – headache
➸ Cyriacus – eye disease

D

➸ Damien of Molokai – leprosy
➸ Defendens – invoked against wolves and fires
➸ Deicolus – childhood illnesses
➸ Denise – against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents
➸ Deodatus of Nevers – against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague
➸ Dometius of Persia -invoked against sciatica
➸ Domninus of Fidenza – rabies
➸ Dymphna – sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness

E

➸ Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia - patron saint of pandemics
➸ Emygdius of Ascoli – invoked against earthquakes
➸ Engelmund of Velsen – invoked against toothache
➸ Epipodius – victims of betrayal and of torture
➸ Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo – invoked against colic in children, intestinal  
     ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour
➸ Eurosia – invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning
➸ Expeditus – invoked against procrastination

F

➸ Fiacre – Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
➸ Fillan – mental illness
➸ Florian – invoked against fire, floods and drowning
➸ Four Holy Marshals – epidemics, diseases
➸ 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
➸ Gerard of Lunel – invoked against epilepsy and headaches
➸ Gerard Majella – pregnancy
➸ Gereon – headaches, migraine
➸ Gertrude of Nivelles – invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
➸ Godelina – throat trouble
➸ Gotthard of Hildesheim – invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses,      
     hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.
➸ Gratus of Aosta – against lightning; fear of insects
➸ Guy of Anderlecht – invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile 
     convulsions

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.
➸ 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
➸ 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
➸ 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
➸ St. Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
➸ Maximilian Kolbe – drug addiction
➸ Maximin of Trier – invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and 
     destructive rains
➸ St. Medard – toothache
➸ St. Michael the Archangel – against danger at sea, against temptations, holy death,  
     sick people, storms at sea
➸ 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

O

➸ Saint Olaf – difficult marriage
➸ Saint Ovidius – auditory conditions and diseases

P

➸ Pacificus of San Severino - chronic pain
➸ Paraskevi of Rome – protectress of blind people
➸ Patroclus of Troyes – demons, fever
➸ Peregrine of Auxerre – against snake bites
➸ Saint Peregrine Laziosi – cancer
➸ Saint Peter – involved against criminals
➸ Saint Paulina – Diabetics
➸ Pancras – cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury
➸ Pharaildis – childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse
➸ Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – Stress relief and New year blues
➸ Polycarp – earache, dysentery
➸ Potamiana – protectress of rape victims

Q

➸ Saint Quentin – coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.
➸ Quirinus of Neuss – invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout
➸ Quiteria – against rabies

R

➸ Rasso – invoked against stomach pains, especially in children
➸ Regina – against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims
➸ Reinildis – to cure open wounds, against eye diseases
➸ Reverianus - invoked against drought
➸ Roch – Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases
➸ Rita of Cascia – lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse

S

➸ Sebaldus – against cold and cold weather
➸ Scholastica – convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain
➸ Servatius – invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice
➸ Silvia – invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children
➸ Sithney – invoked against rabies
➸ Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt – angina
➸ Symphorian – syphilis, eye troubles

T

➸ Theobald of Provins – invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry 
     cough; infertility; panic attacks
➸Trophimus of Arles – against drought
➸ Tryphon – against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts

U

➸ Ubald – migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
➸ Urban of Langres – invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness
➸ Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne – invoked against stiff neck
➸ Ursus of Aosta – faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism

V

➸ Valentine – fainting, plague, epilepsy
➸ Victor of Marseilles – invoked against lightning
➸ Vitalis of Assisi – diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals
➸ Vitus – chorea/Saint Vitus' Dance, epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping

W

➸ Walter of Pontoise – invoked against stress
➸ Wilgefortis – people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who       
     wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.
➸ William Firmatus – against headache
➸ Willibrord – convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
➸ Winnoc – fever, whooping cough
➸ Wulfram of Sens – for protection against the dangers of the sea.

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