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The Fourteen Holy Helpers are honored in Bavaria as the vierzehn Heiligen, and the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen is dedicated to these auxiliary saints. The Rococo pilgrimage church near the town of Bad Staffelstein was designed by Balthasar Neumann and built between 1743 and 1772.
Erasmus of Formia, also known as Saint Elmo (died c. 303), was a Christian saint and martyr.He is venerated as the patron saint of sailors and abdominal pain.Erasmus or Elmo is also one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, saintly figures of Christian religion who are venerated especially as intercessors.
Bubonic plague or the Black Death – Fourteen Holy Helpers; Invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout – Quirinus of Neuss; Pneumonia - Casimiro Barello Morello; Poverty – Macrina the Elder; Against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims – Regina [20] Pregnancy – Gerard Majella; Invoked against procrastination – Expeditus
As one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Barbara is a popular saint, perhaps best known as the patron saint of armourers, artillerymen, military engineers, miners and others who work with explosives because of her legend's association with lightning. She is also a patron saint of mathematicians.
Saint Pantaleon (Greek: Παντελεήμων, romanized: Panteleḗmōn, lit. 'All-compassionate'), counted in Western Christianity as among the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Late Middle Ages, and in Eastern Christianity as one of the Holy Unmercenary Healers, [4] was a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.
He is venerated in the Catholic Church as a patron saint of both France and Paris and is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. A chapel was raised at the site of his burial by a local Christian woman; it was later expanded into an abbey and basilica, around which grew up the French city of Saint-Denis, now a suburb of Paris.
The Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (German: Basilika Vierzehnheiligen) is a church located near the town of Bad Staffelstein near Bamberg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. The late Baroque ( Rococo ) basilica , designed by Balthasar Neumann , was constructed between 1743 and 1772 . [ 1 ]
Saint Cyriacus is venerated as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. It is claimed his relics were moved to Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome, and the abbey of St Cyriaque in Altorf in Alsace. The Church of "Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian" (Latin: "Sanctus Ciriacus in Thermis Diocletiani"), was dedicated to this martyr, a former titulus ...