Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers

Saint Roch is invoked against the bubonic plague.

This is a list of 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^[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
• 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

• Cajetan – invoked against illegal gamblings
• Castulus – invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.^[11]
• Catherine of Vadstena – against abortion, miscarriage^[12]
• 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.^[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
• 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, people who fight communism, 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]
• 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^[39]
• Saint Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
• Maximilian Kolbe – drug addiction
• Maximin of Trier – invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains^[40]
• 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^[41]

O

• Saint Olaf – difficult marriage
• Saint Ovidius – auditory conditions and diseases^[42]

P

• Paraskevi of Rome – protectress of blind people^[43]
• Patroclus of Troyes- demons, fever^[44]
• Peregrine of Auxerre- against snake bites^[45]
• 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^[43]
• Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – Stress relief and New year blues
• Polycarp – earache, dysentery^[46]
• Potamiana – protectress of rape victims^[47]

Q

• Saint Quentin – coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.^[48]
• Quirinus of Neuss – invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout^[49]
• Quiteria – against rabies^[50]

R

• Rasso – invoked against stomach pains, especially in children^[51]
• Regina – against poverty, impoverishment, shepherdesses, torture victims^[52]
• Reinildis – to cure open wounds, against eye diseases^[53][54]
• Reverianus - invoked against drought^[55]
• Roch – Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases^[56]
• Rita of Cascia – lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse^[57]

S

• Sebaldus – against cold and cold weather^[58]
• Scholastica – convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain^[59]
• Servatius – invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice^[60]
• Silvia – invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children^[61]
• Simon of Trent – torture and kidnap victims (no longer venerated)^[62]
• Sithney – invoked against rabies^[63]
• Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt – angina
• Symphorian – syphilis, eye troubles^[64]

T

• Theobald of Provins – invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks^[65]
• Thomas of Green – sensitive knees^[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 – chorea/Saint Vitus' Dance, 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 is called upon 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/