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Those who serve the sick - Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [25] Skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire - Anthony; Skin diseases, victims of child abuse - Germaine Cousin; Sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness - Dymphna; Smallpox - Matthias; Invoked against stomach pains, especially in children - Rasso
Église Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka] is a parish in Montreal located at 1350 Boulevard Saint-Joseph Est. [15] Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec, Canada, a municipality southwest of Montreal. St. Stanislaus Forane Church, Mala situated at Mala, Kerala, is reputed to be the only parish in India having St. Stanislaus as the patron saint. [citation ...
Saint Blaise (Croatian: Sveti Vlaho or Sveti Blaž) is the patron saint of the city of Dubrovnik and formerly the protector of the independent Republic of Ragusa. At Dubrovnik, his feast is celebrated yearly on 3 February, when relics of the saint, his skull, a bit of bone from his throat and his right and left hands are paraded in reliquaries.
In 1686 Pope Innocent XI named him a patron of Lithuania. He is the patron saint of those in danger of drowning and [weight lifting. [citation needed] Among notable churches in North America dedicated to Hyacinth of Poland is the Basilica of St. Hyacinth in Chicago, Illinois.
Saint Gorgonia (Greek: Αγία Γοργονία; died c. 375 [1] [2]) was the daughter of Saint Gregory the Elder and Saint Nonna. She is remembered in both Eastern and Western Churches for her piety as a married woman. Her husband's name was Alypius accordding to epigram 10.103 by gregory of nazianzus in grerk anthology.
According to pious legend, Saint Bernard asked Jesus which was his greatest unrecorded suffering and the wound that inflicted the most pain on him in Calvary. Jesus answered: "I had on my shoulder, while I bore my cross on the Way of Sorrows , a grievous wound which was more painful than the others and which is not recorded by men."
Fillan is the patron saint of the mentally ill. In Strathfillan are the ruins of Saint Fillan's chapel, and hard by is the Holy Pool, in which the insane were, as late as the 19th century, bathed to obtain a cure by the saint's intercession. Scott refers to it in Marmion (Cant. I. xxix). [2]
St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and has a long history of veneration there. [7] The cult of St Andrew was established on the east coast at Kilrymont by the Pictish kings as early as the eighth century. [8] The shrine, which from the twelfth century was said to have contained the relics of the saint brought to Scotland by Saint Regulus ...