Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers
This is a list of patron saints of ailments, illnesses, and dangers.
Saint Roch is invoked against the bubonic plague.
A
- Abd-al-Masih – sterile women (in Syria)
- Saint Abel – patron of the blind and the lame
- Abhai – poisonous reptiles
- Agapitus of Palestrina – invoked against colic[1]
- Agatha – breast cancer[2]
- Agathius – headache
- Agricola of Avignon – bubonic plague, misfortunes
- Agrippina of Mineo – invoked against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections
- Albinus of Angers – against pirate attack
- Aloysius Gonzaga – the blind
- Alphonsa–against diseases in the feet
- Amabilis of Riom – invoked against fire, snakes, and snake bites;[3] also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts[4]
- Andrew Avellino – sudden death
- Andrew Corsini – riot, civil disorder
- Anthony – skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire[5]
- Anthony of Padua – Missing people and lost things
- Apollinaris – epilepsy, gout
- Apollonia – toothache
- Arthelais – kidnapping, illness
- Aspren – invoked against migraine[6]
- Audoin (Ouen) – deafness[7]
- Augustine of Hippo – sore eyes
- Adrian of Nicomedia – plague, epilepsy
B
- Balbina – scrofula[8]
- Berlinda of Meerbeke – invoked against cattle diseases[9]
- Bernardino of Siena – chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions
- Bessus – protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility.[10]
- Blaise – ailments of the throat
C
- Caesarius of Terracina - invoked against drowning, flooding, and for the good success of Caesarean section
- Cajetan – invoked against illegal gamblings
- Castulus – invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.[11]
- Catherine of Vadstena – against abortion, miscarriage[12]
- Christina the Astonishing – against insanity, mental disorders.
- Coloman – plague, sick horses, against hanging
- Conrad of Piacenza -against hernias
- Cornelius – invoked against epilepsy, cramps, afflictions associated with the nerves and ears.[13]
- Crescentinus – headache
- Cyriacus – eye disease
D
- Damien of Molokai – leprosy
- Defendens – invoked against wolves and fires[14]
- Deicolus – childhood illnesses
- Denise – against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents[15][16]
- Deodatus of Nevers – against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague[17]
- Dometius of Persia – invoked against sciatica[18]
- Domninus of Fidenza – rabies[19]
- Dymphna – sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness
E
- Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia - patron saint of pandemics[20]
- Emygdius of Ascoli – invoked against earthquakes[21]
- Engelmund of Velsen – invoked against toothache[22]
- Epipodius – victims of betrayal and of torture[23]
- Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo – invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour[24]
- Eurosia – invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning[25]
- Expeditus – invoked against procrastination[26]
F
- Fiacre – Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
- Fillan – mental illness
- Florian – invoked against fire, floods and drowning[27]
- Four Holy Marshals – epidemics, diseases[28]
- Fourteen Holy Helpers – epidemics, bubonic plague or the Black Death
G
- Gangulphus – eye and skin conditions; knee pains; invoked against adultery and marital difficulties
- Gemma Galgani – invoked against spinal injuries, back pain, headaches, loss of parents
- Genesius of Rome – actors, clowns, comedians, comics, converts, dancers, musicians, stenographers, printers, lawyers, epileptics, thieves, torture victims[29]
- Gerard of Lunel – invoked against epilepsy[30] and headaches[31]
- Gerard Majella – pregnancy
- Gereon – headaches, migraine
- Gertrude of Nivelles – invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
- Godelina – throat trouble[32]
- Gotthard of Hildesheim – invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.[33]
- Gratus of Aosta – against lightning; fear of insects[34]
- Guy of Anderlecht – invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions[35]
H
- Hemma of Gurk – invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye
- Hermes – mental illnesses
- Harvey – eye problems, eye disease
- Hippolytus of Rome – sick horses
- Hubertus - Rabies
- Hugh of Cluny – fever
- Hyacinth – those in danger of drowning
J
- James the Great – rheumatism
- John of Bridlington – women in difficult labor
- Joseph – against doubt, against hesitation, dying people, expectant mothers, happy death, holy death, interior souls, people in doubt, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses.[36]
- Jude Thaddaeus – lost causes, desperate situations
- Julia of Corsica – pathologies of the hands and the feet
- Juliana of Nicomedia – childbirth, sickness
K
- Kentigern – against bullies and verbal abuse
L
- Lorenzo Ruiz – poor, immigrants, migrant workers, separated families
- Leodegar (Saint Mungo) – blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes
- Liborius of Le Mans – against gallstones, colic[37]
- Lucy of Syracuse – haemorrhage, eye complaints
M
- Macrina the Elder – poverty
- Mammes – protector of sufferers from broken bones and hernias
- Marciana of Mauretania – invoked to cure wounds[38]
- St. Marciana of Toledo – curing of wounds
- Marculf – scrofula, diseases of the skin
- Mary Magdalene – people ridiculed for their piety, penitent sinners, prostitutes, repentance, sexual temptation
- Maria Goretti – victims of rape, crime victims, invoked against pedophiles.
- Martin of Tours – alcoholism
- Matthias – alcoholism, smallpox
- Maturinus – invoked against mental illness and infertility[39]
- St. Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
- Maximilian Kolbe – drug addiction
- Maximin of Trier – invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains[40]
- St. Medard – toothache
- St. Michael the Archangel – against danger at sea, against temptations, holy death, sick people, storms at sea, police officers.
- Miliau – against rheumatism
N
- Natalia of Nicomedia – plague, epilepsy
- Nonnosus – diseases of the kidneys, invoked against physical defects, back pains, and school-related students' crises[41]
O
- Saint Olaf – difficult marriage
- Saint Ovidius – auditory conditions and diseases[42]
P
- Pacificus of San Severino – chronic pain[43]
- Paraskevi of Rome – protectress of blind people[44]
- Patroclus of Troyes – demons, fever[45]
- Peregrine of Auxerre – against snake bites[46]
- Saint Peregrine Laziosi – cancer
- Saint Peter – involved against criminals
- Saint Paulina – Diabetics
- Pancras – cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury
- Pharaildis – childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse[47]
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – Stress relief and New year blues
- Polycarp – earache, dysentery[48]
- Potamiana – protector of rape victims[49]
Q
- Saint Quentin – coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.[50]
- Quirinus of Neuss – invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout[51]
- Quiteria – against rabies[52]
R
- Rasso – invoked against stomach pains, especially in children[53]
- Regina – against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims[54]
- Reinildis – to cure open wounds, against eye diseases[55][56]
- Reverianus – invoked against drought[57]
- Roch – invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases[58]
- Rita of Cascia – lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse[59]
S
- Sebaldus – against cold and cold weather[60]
- Scholastica – convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain[61]
- Servatius – invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice[62]
- Silvia – invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children[63]
- Sithney – invoked against rabies[64]
- Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt – angina
- Symphorian – syphilis, eye troubles[65]
T
- Theobald of Provins – invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks[66]
- Trophimus of Arles – against drought[67]
- Tryphon – against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts[68]
U
- Ubald – migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Urban of Langres – invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness[69]
- Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne – invoked against stiff neck[70]
- Ursus of Aosta – faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism[71]
V
- Valentine – fainting, plague, epilepsy[72]
- Victor of Marseilles – invoked against lightning[73]
- Vitalis of Assisi – diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals[74]
- Vitus – Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping
W
- Walter of Pontoise – invoked against stress[75]
- Wilgefortis – people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.[76]
- William Firmatus – against headache[77]
- Willibrord – convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
- Winnoc – fever, whooping cough[78]
- Wulfram of Sens – for protection against the dangers of the sea.
See also
- Patron saints of occupations and activities
- Patron saints of places
- Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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