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Saints have often been prevailed upon in requests for intercessory prayers to protect against or help combatting a variety of dangers, illnesses, and ailments. This is a list of saints and such ills traditionally associated with them. In shorthand, they are called the patron saints of (people guarding against or grappling with) these various ...
Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [26] Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes, [5] Cuthbert, Cuthman, Dominic of Silos, Drogo of Sebourg, George, Germaine Cousin, Julian the Hospitaller, Raphael the Archangel, Regina, Solange; Shoemakers - Crispin, Gangulphus, Peter the Apostle, Theobald of Provins; Shorthand writers ...
Saint Pantaleon was the patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed, and Saints Christopher, Barbara, and Catherine of Alexandria for protection against a sudden and unprovided-for death. Saint Giles was prayed to for a good confession, and Saint Eustace as healer of family troubles.
In art, she is commonly represented holding a book to signify the library she saved, and an axe, which signifies the manner of her martyrdom. [6] The axe with which she is commonly depicted is in fact anachronistic , being a halberd , which did not come into existence until the 15th century.
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Saint Pharaildis or Pharailde (Dutch: Veerle) is an 8th-century Belgian virgin and patron saint of Ghent. Her dates are imprecise, but she lived to a great age and died on January 5 at ninety. Her dates are imprecise, but she lived to a great age and died on January 5 at ninety.
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Vitalis then spent the rest of his life in the hermitage of Santa Maria di Viole, near Assisi, in utter poverty.His one possession was an old container that he used to drink water from a nearby spring.