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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 ...
Odile of Alsace, also known as Odilia and Ottilia, born c. 662 - c. 720 at Mont Sainte-Odile), is a saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. She is a patroness saint of good eyesight and of the region of Alsace. Saint Odile is commemorated with a feast day on 13 December [2] and on 14 December in Alsace ...
Symphorian is patron of Autun; children; students; against eye problems, against syphilis Symphorian ( Symphorianus , Symphorien ), Timotheus ( Timothy ), and Hippolytus of Rome are three Christian martyrs who, though they were unrelated and were killed in different places and at different times, shared a common feast day in the General Roman ...
She is also the patron saint of ophthalmologists, authors, cutlers, glaziers, laborers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers, photogrammetry, and of Perugia, Italy. She is invoked against hemorrhages, dysentery, diseases of the eye, and throat infections. [18] St. Lucy is the patroness of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy. [18]
Saint Hemma is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk and her intercession is sought for childbirth and diseases of the eye. She is venerated not only in Carinthia (the Austrian state coterminous with the Diocese of Gurk), but also in neighboring Styria (another Austrian state) and Slovenia .
St Ita is the patron saint of Killeedy, Ireland, [6] and along with St. Munchin is co-patron of the Diocese of Limerick. She is reportedly a good intercessor in terms of pregnancy and eye illnesses. [8] St. Ita's AFC is the name of the association football club which is based in Killeedy. The saint appears on the club's crest.
Digital-related eye strain is marked by symptoms that can include dry, achy or even painful eyes; blurry vision; burning, stinging or redness; watery eyes or the sensation of having sand or ...
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 ...