Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers

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This is a list of patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers.

Video Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers

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
• Agatha - breast cancer
• 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
• Amabilis of Riom - invoked against fire, snakes, and snake bites; also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts
• Andrew Avellino - sudden death
• Andrew Corsini - riot, civil disorder
• Anthony - skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire
• Anthony of Padua - Missing people and lost things
• Apollinaris - epilepsy, gout
• Apollonia - toothache
• Arthelais - kidnapping, illness
• Aspren - invoked against migraine
• Audoin (Ouen) - deafness
• Augustine of Hippo - sore eyes
• Adrian of Nicomedia - plague, epilepsy

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B

• Balbina - scrofula
• Berlinda of Meerbeke - invoked against cattle diseases
• Bernardino of Siena - chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions
• Bessus - protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility.
• Blaise - ailments of the throat

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C

• Cajetan - invoked against illegal gamblings
• Castulus - invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.
• Catherine of Vadstena - against abortion, miscarriage
• Chad of Mercia - against the losers, defeats, disappointed and unsuccessful.
• 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.
• Crescentinus - headache
• Cyriacus - eye disease

D

• Damien of Molokai - leprosy
• Defendens - invoked against wolves and fires
• Deicolus - childhood illnesses
• Denise - against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents
• Deodatus of Nevers - against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague
• Dometius of Persia -invoked against sciatica
• Domninus of Fidenza - rabies
• Dymphna - sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness

E

• Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia - patron saint of pandemics
• Emygdius of Ascoli - invoked against earthquakes
• Engelmund of Velsen - invoked against toothache
• Epipodius - victims of betrayal and of torture
• Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo - invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour
• Eurosia - invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning
• Expeditus - invoked against procrastination

F

• Fiacre - Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
• Fillan - mental illness
• Florian - invoked against fire, floods and drowning
• Four Holy Marshals - epidemics, diseases
• 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
• Gerard of Lunel - invoked against epilepsy and headaches
• Gerard Majella - pregnancy
• Gereon - headaches, migraine
• Gertrude of Nivelles - invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
• Godelina - throat trouble
• Gotthard of Hildesheim - invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.
• Gratus of Aosta - against lightning; fear of insects
• Guy of Anderlecht - invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions

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.
• 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
• 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
• 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 - Soldiers, Beggars, Alcoholics
• Maturinus - invoked against mental illness and infertility
• Saint Maurus - rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
• Maximilian Kolbe - drug addiction
• Maximin of Trier - invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains
• Saint Medard - toothache
• Michael - against danger at sea, against temptations, holy death, sick people, storms at sea
• 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

O

• Saint Olaf - difficult marriage
• Saint Ovidius - auditory conditions and diseases

P

• Paraskevi of Rome - protectress of blind people
• Patroclus of Troyes - demons, fever
• Peregrine of Auxerre - against snake bites
• 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
• Saint Pio of Pietrelcina - Stress relief and New year blues
• Polycarp - earache, dysentery
• Potamiana - protectress of rape victims

Q

• Saint Quentin - coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.
• Quirinus of Neuss - invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout
• Quiteria - against rabies

R

• Rasso - invoked against stomach pains, especially in children
• Regina - against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims
• Reinildis - to cure open wounds, against eye diseases
• Reverianus - invoked against drought
• Roch - Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases
• Rita of Cascia - lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse

S

• Sebaldus - against cold and cold weather
• Scholastica - convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain
• Servatius - invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice
• Silvia - invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children
• Sithney - invoked against rabies
• Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt - angina
• Symphorian - syphilis, eye troubles

T

• Theobald of Provins - invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks
• Trophimus of Arles - against drought
• Tryphon - against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts

U

• Ubald - migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
• Urban of Langres - invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness
• Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne - invoked against stiff neck
• Ursus of Aosta - faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism

V

• Valentine - fainting, plague, epilepsy
• Victor of Marseilles - invoked against lightning
• Vitalis of Assisi - diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals
• Vitus - chorea/Saint Vitus' Dance, epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping

W

• Walter of Pontoise - invoked against stress
• Wilgefortis - people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.
• William Firmatus - against headache
• Willibrord - convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
• Winnoc - fever, whooping cough
• 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

References

External links

• Patron Saints for Chronic and Incurable Illnesses
• Saints.sqpn.com/

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