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Chronic pain - Pacificus of San Severino; Patron saint against pandemics - Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia [19] Invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains - Maximin of Trier; Against pirate attack - Albinus of Angers; Plague, epilepsy - Adrian of Nicomedia; Against plague - Sebastian; Plague, epilepsy - Natalia of ...
Lidwina (Lydwine, Lydwid, Lidwid, Liduina of Schiedam) (1380–1433) was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patroness saint of the town of Schiedam, of chronic pain, and of ice skating. Lidwina is also thought to be one of the first documented cases of multiple sclerosis. At the age of fifteen, she ...
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." [2]
Statue of St Peregrine, showing his tumorous leg. His body rests in the Servite church of Forlì, the Basilica of Saint Pellegrino Laziosi. [5] Pope Paul V declared him blessed in 1609 and Pope Benedict XIII canonized him in 1726. [1] The liturgical feast of Peregrine Laziosi is on 1 May. Laziosi is considered the patron saint of those ...
In 1886, Pope Leo XIII proclaimed him patron of all hospitals and of the sick. [3] In 1930, Pope Pius XI named him co-patron, with Saint John of God of nurses and nursing associations. [ 8 ] His assistance is also invoked against gambling.
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, patron saint of journalists, prisoners, and drug addicts, was a Polish priest who was murdered in Auschwitz after volunteering to die in the place of another.
Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz; Ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel
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.