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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
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 ...
Because some versions of her story relate that her eyes were removed, either by herself or by her persecutors, she is the patroness saint of the blind. [4] She is also the patron saint of ophthalmologists, authors, cutlers, glaziers, laborers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers, photogrammetry, and of Perugia, Italy ...
Saint Stefan the Blind (Despot Stefan Branković) – 22 October [O.S. 9 October] Saint Stefan Uroš (Stefan Uroš V) – 15 December [O.S. 2 December] Saint Stefan Urošic Nemanjić – 24 November [O.S. 11 November] Saint Stefan Štiljanović – 17 October [O.S. 4 October] Hieromartyr Teodor Nestorović (Bishop of Vršac) – 29 May [O.S. 16 ...
It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1] In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood. The word saint comes from the Latin word sanctus, meaning ' holy ', and although saint has been applied in other religious contexts, the word has its origins in ...
Saint Tiburtius: 3rd century Saint Susanna: 3rd century Timothy I of Alexandria: 4th century Timothy the Apostle: c. 80 Tiridates III of Armenia: 4th century Titus (Companion of Paul) c. 107 Torquatus of Acci: 1st century Trifon: 3rd century Trofimena: 3rd century Trophimus of Arles: 3rd century Tryphon: c. 248 Turibius of Astorga: 5th century ...
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.
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.