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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 ...
A mural depicting Saint Phanourios in Greece. Saint Phanourios is said to have been awarded the Martyr's Crown in the Orthodox Christian faith. He is also well known for finding people's lost belongings after fervent supplications, according to the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
In 1923, Pope Pius XI proclaimed him a patron of writers and journalists because de Sales made extensive use of broadsheets and books in spiritual direction and in his efforts to convert the Calvinists of the region. [5] Sales developed a sign language to teach a deaf man about God. That has made him the patron saint of the deaf. [19]
135 A.D.: Saint Ovidius died; he is the patron saint of curing auditory disease. [13] 131: Galen, a Greek physician from Pergamon wrote "Speech and hearing share the same source in the brain…" [14] 738: In the Justinian Code, Emperor Justinian deduced that being deaf and mute are two different traits and are not always together. [15] [16]
Saint Earconwald or Erkenwald [a] (died 693) was a Saxon prince [1] and Bishop of London between 675 and 693. [2] He is the eponymous subject of one of the most important poems in the foundations of English literature [ 3 ] (thought to be by the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Poet ).
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Saints often become the patrons of places where they were born or had been active. However, there were cases in medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence obtained for its cathedral the remains or some relics of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, thus making them the city's patron saint – such a practice conferred considerable prestige on the city concerned.