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  2. Stanislaus Kostka - Wikipedia

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    Église Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka] is a parish in Montreal located at 1350 Boulevard Saint-Joseph Est. [15] Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka, Quebec, Canada, a municipality southwest of Montreal. St. Stanislaus Forane Church, Mala situated at Mala, Kerala, is reputed to be the only parish in India having St. Stanislaus as the patron saint. [citation ...

  3. Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers - Wikipedia

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    Patron saint against pandemics - Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia [19] Invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains - Maximin of Trier; Against pirate attack - Albinus of Angers; Plague, epilepsy - Adrian of Nicomedia; Against plague - Sebastian; Plague, epilepsy - Natalia of Nicomedia; Bubonic plague, misfortunes ...

  4. Saint Gorgonia - Wikipedia

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    Gregory the Theologian eulogized Saint Gorgonia as "The Diamond of Her Sex" Two times in her life, she was miraculously cured of serious maladies. The first of these was her having been trampled by a team of mules, causing her broken bones and crushed internal organs. [2] Yet, Gorgonia would have no doctor, as she thought it indecent.

  5. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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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

  6. Simeon of Verkhoturye - Wikipedia

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    In the coffin that had been raised from the grave were found bone remains, tightly covered with flesh, and decaying clothes. Ignatius pronounced them as incorruptible, and, according to the hagiography, received a revelation in a dream about the name of the saint, whom he ordered be called "righteous Saint Simeon". On 30 December 1694 Ignatius ...

  7. Lidwina - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Richard of Chichester - Wikipedia

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    Richard is the patron saint of the county of Sussex in England. Since 2007, his translated saint's day , 16 June, has been celebrated as Sussex Day. [ 33 ] Richard is honoured with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on 3 April, [ 34 ] which is also the date for his commemoration in the new Roman Martyrology of ...

  9. Chad of Mercia - Wikipedia

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    It is the only cathedral in England that has the relics of its patron saint enshrined upon its high altar. The Anglican Lichfield Cathedral, at the site of his burial, is dedicated to Chad, and St Mary, and still has a head chapel, where the skull of the saint was kept until it was lost during the Reformation. The site of the medieval shrine is ...