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Skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire - Anthony; Skin diseases, victims of child abuse - Germaine Cousin; Sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness - Dymphna; Smallpox - Matthias; Invoked against stomach pains, especially in children - Rasso; Invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning - Eurosia [26] Stress relief and New year blues ...
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 ...
Pacificus is considered the patron saint of those with chronic pain. Locations named in honor of Pacificus are relatively few; one church in North America, a chapel in Humphrey, New York, bears his name. The Latin Catholic Church of Büyükada [Prinkipo] in Istanbul, Turkey, called San Pacifico Latin Catholic Church, is dedicated to Pacificus. [7]
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.
The town Saint-Camille, Quebec and the parish Saint-Camille-de-Lellis, Quebec; The town and village of Camillus, New York; Saint Camillus Academy, former Catholic school in Kentucky, USA; St Camille Association, providing residential care for people in West Africa suffering from mental illness; St. Camillus Centre in Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho
Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [26] Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes, [5] Cuthbert, Cuthman, Dominic of Silos, Drogo of Sebourg, George, Germaine Cousin, Julian the Hospitaller, Raphael the Archangel, Regina, Solange; Shoemakers - Crispin, Gangulphus, Peter the Apostle, Theobald of Provins; Shorthand writers ...
Fiacre is the patron saint of the commune of Saint-Fiacre, Seine-et-Marne, France. He is the patron of growers of vegetables and medicinal plants, and gardeners in general, including ploughboys. [13] His reputed aversion to women is believed to be the reason that he is also considered the patron of victims of venereal disease. [12]
Hermione of Ephesus (Greek: Ερμιόνη της Εφέσου; d. A.D. 117) is a 2nd-century saint and martyr venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. She was well known as a "great healer" [1]: 16 and founded the first Christian hospital in Ephesus. [1]: 16