# Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers

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 troubles.

## A

* Against abortion, miscarriage – Catherine of Vadstena
* Alcoholism – Martin of Tours
* Angina – Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt
* Arthritis – Alphonsus Liguori
* Auditory conditions and diseases – Ovidius
* Earache, dysentery – Polycarp
* Autism – Thorlak

## B

* Victims of betrayal and of torture – Epipodius
* Against motorcycle/bicycle accidents – Denise
* Invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness – Urban of Langres
* Blind and the lame – Abel of Reims
* The blind – Aloysius Gonzaga
* Blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes – Leodegar
* Protectress of blind people – Paraskevi of Rome
* Protector of sufferers from broken bones and hernias – Mammes
* Against bullies and verbal abuse – Kentigern

## C

* Cancer – Peregrine Laziosi
* Breast cancer – Agatha
* Stomach cancer, youth, people who suffer from shyness – Alfie Lambe
* Invoked against cattle diseases – Berlinda of Meerbeke
* Chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions – Bernardino of Siena
* Invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye – Hemma of Gurk
* Childbirth, sickness – Juliana of Nicomedia
* Women in difficult labor – John of Bridlington
* Difficult pregnancy and safe child birth – Peter and Fevronia of Murom
* Invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children – Silvia
* Childhood illnesses – Deicolus
* Childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse – Pharaildis
* Convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain – Scholastica
* Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases – Roch
* Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping – Vitus
* Invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases – Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
* Riot, civil disorder – Andrew Corsini
* Against cold and cold weather – Sebaldus
* Against colic – Agapitus of Palestrina
* Invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour – Erasmus of Formiae (St Elmo)
* Convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics – Willibrord
* Coughs, sneezes, and dropsy – Quentin
* Invoked against cramps, afflictions associated with the nerves and ears – Cornelius
* Cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury – Pancras
* Involved against criminals – Saint Peter
* Crohns disease and IBS – Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago

## D

* Deafness – Audoin (Ouen)
* Dying people, expectant mothers, hesitation, happy death, holy death, interior souls, people in doubt, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses – Joseph
* Demons, fever – Patroclus of Troyes
* Diabetics – Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus
* Invoked against dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout – Gotthard of Hildesheim
* Invoked against drought – Reverianus
* Against drought – Trophimus of Arles
* Those in danger of drowning – Hyacinth
* Drug addiction – Maximilian Kolbe

## E

* Invoked against earthquakes – Emygdius of Ascoli
* Epidemics, diseases – Four Holy Marshals
* Invoked against epilepsy and headaches – Gerard of Lunel
* Epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions – Guy of Anderlecht
* Invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning – Castulus
* Invoked against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections – Agrippina of Mineo
* Sore eyes – Augustine of Hippo
* Eye disease – Cyriacus
* Eye and skin conditions; knee pains; invoked against adultery and marital difficulties – Gangulphus
* Eye problems, eye disease – Harvey

## F

* Fainting, plague, epilepsy – Valentine
* Against diseases in the feet – Saint Alphonsa
* Invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice – Servatius
* Invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice – Gertrude of Nivelles
* Fever – Hugh of Cluny
* Invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks – Theobald of Provins
* Invoked against fire, floods and drowning – Florian
* Invoked against flooding, and for the good success of Caesarean section – Caesarius of Terracina

## G

* Against gallstones, colic – Liborius of Le Mans
* Invoked against illegal gambling – Cajetan
* Diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals – Vitalis of Assisi
* Gout, sore throat, fever, whooping cough – Andrew the Apostle
* Gout – Apollinaris

## H

* Pathologies of the hands and the feet – Julia of Corsica
* Against hanging – Coloman
* Hangovers – Bibiana
* Against headache – Agathius, Teresa of Ávila, Bibiana, Crescentinus, Denis of Paris, William Firmatus,
* Heart disease – John of God
* Haemorrhage, eye complaints – Lucy of Syracuse
* Against hernias – Conrad of Piacenza
* The homeless – Benedict Joseph Labre, Nicholas of Trani, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
* Sick horses – Hippolytus of Rome

## I

* Patron of immigrants, migrant workers, separated families – Lorenzo Ruiz
* Invoked against infertility – Maturinus
* Female infertility (in Syria) – Abd-al-Masih
* Against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts – Tryphon
* Against insanity, mental disorders – Bibiana, Christina the Astonishing

## K

* Against kidnapping, illness – Arthelais
* Kidney disease, and rheumatism – Ursus of Aosta
* Diseases of the kidneys, invoked against physical defects, back pains, and school-related students' crises – Nonnosus

## L

* Leprosy, HIV and AIDS – Damien of Molokai
* Against lightning; fear of insects – Gratus of Aosta
* Invoked against lightning – Victor of Marseilles
* Lost causes, desperate situations – Jude Thaddaeus
* Lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse – Rita of Cascia
* Missing people and lost things – Anthony of Padua

## M

* Difficult marriage – Olaf
* Mental illness – Bibiana, Fillan, Hermes, Dymphna
* Migraine – Aspren, Gereon

## N

* Invoked as a protector from natural disasters, plague, invasion – Leoluca
* Invoked against stiff neck – Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
* Neuralgia, sick children, obsessive compulsive disorder – Ubald
* Nyctophobia – Cannera

## P

* Chronic pain – Pacificus of San Severino
* Patron saint against pandemics – Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia
* Invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains – Maximin of Trier
* Against pirate attack – Albinus of Angers
* Plague, epilepsy – Adrian of Nicomedia
* Against plague – Sebastian
* Plague, epilepsy – Natalia of Nicomedia
* Bubonic plague, misfortunes – Agricola of Avignon
* Bubonic plague or the Black Death – Fourteen Holy Helpers
* Invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout – Quirinus of Neuss
* Pneumonia - Casimiro Barello Morello
* Poverty – Macrina the Elder
* Against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims – Regina
* Pregnancy – Gerard Majella
* Invoked against procrastination – Expeditus
* The souls in purgatory – John Macias

## R

* Rabies – Domninus of Fidenza
* Rabies – Hubert of Liège
* Against rabies – Quiteria –
* Invoked against rabies – Sithney
* Victims of rape – Clementina Nengapeta
* Victims of rape, crime victims, invoked against pedophiles – Maria Goretti
* Rape victims – Potamiana
* Against venomous reptiles – Abhai
* Invoked against snakes, and snake bites; also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts – Amabilis of Riom
* Against snake bites – Peregrine of Auxerre
* Rheumatism – James the Great
* Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
* Against rheumatism – Miliau –
* People ridiculed for their piety, repentance, temptation – Mary Magdalene
* Politicians, athletes, road safety – Alberto Marvelli

## S

* Invoked against sciatica – Dometius of Persia
* Those who suffer scoliosis, against animal attacks – Joseph of Anchieta
* Scrofula – Saint Balbina
* Scrofula, diseases of the skin – Marculf
* Against danger at sea, against temptations, sick people, storms at sea, police officers – Michael the Archangel
* For protection against the dangers of the sea – Wulfram of Sens
* Against sepsis – John Henry Newman
* The sick, asthma sufferers, nurses and carers – Bernadette
* Those who serve the sick – Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
* Skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire – Anthony
* Skin diseases, victims of child abuse – Germaine Cousin
* Sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness – Dymphna
* Smallpox – Matthias
* Invoked against stomach pains, especially in children – Rasso
* Invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning – Eurosia
* Stress relief and New year blues – Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
* Invoked against stress – Walter of Pontoise
* Students, youth – John Berchmans
* Sudden death – Andrew Avellino
* Syphilis, eye troubles – Symphorian

## T

* Ailments of the throat – Blaise
* Throat trouble – Godelina
* Against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague – Deodatus of Nevers
* Toothache – Apollonia
* Invoked against toothache – Engelmund of Velsen
* Toothache – Medard
* Stenographers, printers, lawyers, epileptics, thieves, torture victims – Genesius of Rome
* People seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands – Wilgefortis

## W

* Protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility – St. Bessus
* Whooping cough – Winnoc
* Invoked against wolves and fires – Defendens
* Invoked to cure wounds – Marciana of Mauretania
* Curing of wounds – Marciana of Toledo
* To cure open wounds, against eye diseases – Reinildis

## V

* Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids – Fiacre