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Medical social workers - John Regis; Medical technicians - Albertus Magnus [24] Mental health professionals - Dymphna; Merchants - Amand, [9] Francis of Assisi, [10] Macarius of Unzha, Nicholas of Myra; Messengers - Gabriel the Archangel; Metal workers - Eligius; Meteorologists - Medard; Midwives - Pantaleon, Raymond Nonnatus
Patron of immigrants, migrant workers, separated families - Lorenzo Ruiz; Invoked against infertility - Maturinus [14] Female infertility (in Syria) - Abd-al-Masih; Against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts - Tryphon [15] [page needed] Against insanity, mental disorders - Bibiana, Christina the Astonishing
Even when his drinking was at its worst, Talbot was a hard worker. When he joined Pembertons, the building contractors, as a hod-carrier, his work-rate was such that he was put first on the line of hodmen to set the pace. Later, in Martin's timber yard, he took on the meanest and hardest jobs.
Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – 15 May 1130), was a Mozarab farmworker who lived in medieval Madrid.Known for his piety toward the poor and animals, he is venerated as a Catholic patron saint of farmers, and of Madrid; El Gobernador, Jalisco; La Ceiba, Honduras; and of Tocoa, Honduras.
Saint Crispin is the patron saint of cobblers, tanners, and leather workers. In 1870, a convention of the Daughters of St. Crispin unanimously adopted a resolution which demanded equal pay for doing the same work as men. [2] In 1872, 300 members of the union staged a strike in three factories in Stoneham, Massachusetts.
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.
Saint Homobonus (Italian: Sant'Omobono, German: Sankt Gutmann, Lombard: San Mobon) is the patron saint of business people, tailors, shoemakers, and clothworkers, as well as of Cremona, Italy. He was canonized in 1199 at the urgent request of the citizens of Cremona. He died on November 13, 1197, and his feast day is celebrated on November 13.
Saint Clement's Day was [when?] traditionally, and in some places [where?] still [when?] is, celebrated on 23 November, a festival between Halloween and Christmas. Pope Clement I is the patron saint of metalworkers and blacksmiths , and so these workers traditionally enjoyed a holiday on his feast day .