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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 ...
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, Pedro Calungsod; Ambassadors ...
Fillan is the patron saint of the mentally ill. In Strathfillan are the ruins of Saint Fillan's chapel, and hard by is the Holy Pool, in which the insane were, as late as the 19th century, bathed to obtain a cure by the saint's intercession. Scott refers to it in Marmion (Cant. I. xxix). [2]
Saint Pantaleon was the patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed, and Saints Christopher, Barbara, and Catherine of Alexandria for protection against a sudden and unprovided-for death. Saint Giles was prayed to for a good confession, and Saint Eustace as healer of family troubles.
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Majority of them are underway [citation needed] for canonization proposed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (CCS). Jesuit Martyrs in Micronesia , Jesuit and lay missionaries in Guam and the Federated States of Micronesia who died for the Christian faith and mission.
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
Orthodox images more often contained inscriptions with the names of saints, so the Eastern repertoire of attributes is generally smaller than the Western. [c] Many of the most prominent saints, like Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist can also be recognised by a distinctive facial type.