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The sick, asthma sufferers, nurses and carers - Bernadette; Those who serve the sick - Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [25] Skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire - Anthony; Skin diseases, victims of child abuse - Germaine Cousin; Sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness - Dymphna; Smallpox - Matthias
Dymphna is the patron saint of mental illness. [5] The US National Shrine of St. Dymphna is located inside St. Mary's Catholic Church in Massillon, Ohio. [6] The shrine was destroyed by a fire in 2015, but reopened in December 2016 and is still open to pilgrims and visitors. St.
Statue of St. Juliana in Jesuit church in Heidelberg, Germany. Juliana of Nicomedia (Greek: Ίουλιανή Νικομηδείας) is an Anatolian Christian saint, said to have suffered martyrdom during the Diocletianic persecution in 304. She was popular as a patron saint of the sick during the Middle Ages, especially in the Netherlands.
Colette of Corbie, PCC (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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 ...
Maria Bertilla Boscardin (6 October 1888 – 20 October 1922) was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was later canonised a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, C.I.I.C. (born Amabile Lucia Visintainer; December 16, 1865 – July 9, 1942), was a Catholic immigrant from Austria-Hungary to Brazil who became the foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, religious sisters who serve the poor.
Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM (born Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal; 28 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767.