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The list of each state and their patron saints are below: Alabama – Our Lady of the Gulf. Alaska – Our Lady of the Kodiak and the Islands. Arizona – Our Lady of the Highways. Arkansas – Our Lady of the Holy Souls. California – Our Lady of the Refuge; Our Lady of the Wayside.
Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, has been patroness of the United States since the mid-19th century. But her protection of the nation dates back to its earliest history.
Mary is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, [116] which Bishop William Donald Borders claimed included the moon due to a technicality in the 1917 Code of Canon Law which supposedly expanded the diocese's territory to include the moon following the flight of Apollo 11.
As a child, Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R. used to claim that he didn't simply want to imitate his patron saint: he wanted to be another St.Francis Xavier. He entered the seminary in Augsburg after completing a degree in Philosophy.
Patron Saints. These are holy men and women identified as special patrons for pilgrims from the United States on pilgrimage to World Youth Day. We ask their intercession for stateside and internationally-bound youth and young adults in preparation for the upcoming World Youth Day events.
Angels can also be named as patron saints. A patron saint can help us when we follow the example of that saint's life and when we ask for that saint's intercessory prayers to God. For example, Francis of Assisi loved nature and so he is patron of ecologists.
An updated list of the saints and various causes for canonization in the United States.