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Chronic pain - Pacificus of San Severino; 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 ...
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
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]
Francis Xavier is the patron saint of his native Navarre, which celebrates his feast day on 3 December as a government holiday. [87] In addition to Roman Catholic Masses remembering Xavier on that day (now known as the Day of Navarre), celebrations in the surrounding weeks honour the region's cultural heritage.
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
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 ...
Honoratus of Amiens is the patron saint of bakers and confectioners. A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. [1] [2]
The military saints, warrior saints and soldier saints are patron saints, martyrs and other saints associated with the military.They were originally composed of the early Christians who were soldiers in the Roman army during the persecution of Christians, especially the Diocletianic Persecution of AD 303–313.