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Saint Denis was prayed to for relief from headache, Saint Blaise against ills of the throat, Saint Elmo, against abdominal maladies, Saint Barbara against fever, and Saint Vitus against epilepsy. Saint Pantaleon was the patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed, and Saints Christopher, Barbara, and ...
Theologians - Augustine of Hippo, [8] John the Evangelist; Therapists - Dymphna; Thomasites - Kateri; Those seeking lost items or people - Anthony of Padua [27] Those who work at great heights - Erasmus of Formiae; Tile makers - Fiacre, Roch; Town criers - Blaise; Toymakers - Claude La Colombière, Nicholas of Myra; Translators - Jerome, [18 ...
They were first challenged by Albert Schweitzer in his doctoral thesis, The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism, [83] [2] [3] (Die psychiatrische Beurteilung Jesu: Darstellung und Kritik, 1913) [84] [85] [29] [86] and by the American theologian Walter E. Bundy [Wikidata] in his 1922 book, The psychic health of Jesus.
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Not all Christian confessions accept every figure on this list as a martyr or Christian—see the linked articles for fuller discussion. In many types of Christianity, martyrdom is considered a direct path to sainthood and many names on this list are viewed as saints in one or more confessions.
Catholic missionaries were some of the first Europeans to reach many parts of French North America and British North America in the east, and Spanish North America in the Southwestern United States. Several American Catholics have been considered for sainthood over the past 50 years. Catholics continue to contribute to American religious life.
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