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

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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 ...

  3. Simon Stock - Wikipedia

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    Simon Stock, OCarm was an English Catholic priest and saint who lived in the 13th century and was an early prior of the Carmelite Order. The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally said to have appeared to him and given him the Brown Scapular.

  4. Fourteen Holy Helpers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Solanus Casey - Wikipedia

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    Solanus Casey, OFM Cap (November 25, 1870 – July 31, 1957), born Bernard Francis Casey, was an American religious priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.He was known during his lifetime as a healer for his great faith and his abilities as a spiritual counselor, but especially for his great attention to the sick, for whom he celebrated special Masses.

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

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    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 ...

  7. Column One: St. Dymphna, patron saint of mental health, is ...

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  8. Patron saint - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Théodore Guérin - Wikipedia

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    The academy is the forerunner to the present-day Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, the oldest Catholic women's liberal arts college in the United States. [ 18 ] [ 43 ] In addition to being a capable businesswoman and school administrator, Guérin was a prolific writer whose journals provide details of her life and work.