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)
• Abel of Reims – patron of the blind and the lame
• Abhai – venomous 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
• Alberto Marvelli - politicians, athletes, road safety
• Albinus of Angers – against pirate attack
• Alfie Lambe - stomach cancer, youth, people who suffer from shyness
• Aloysius Gonzaga – the blind
• Alphonsa–against diseases in the feet
• Alphonsus Liguori – arthritis
• Amabilis of Riom – invoked against fire, snakes, and snake bites; also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts
• Andrew the Apostle - convulsions, gout, sore throat, fever, whooping cough
• 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

B

• Balbina – scrofula
• Benedict Joseph Labre - the mentally ill, homeless
• Berlinda of Meerbeke – invoked against cattle diseases^[1]
• Bernadette - the sick, asthma sufferers, nurses and carers
• Bernardino of Siena – chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions
• Bessus – protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility.
• Saint Bibiana - epilepsy, hangovers, headaches, insanity, mental illness
• 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
• Cannera - against drowning, nyctophobia
• Carlos Manuel Rodriguez - crohns disease and IBS
• Casimiro Barello - the homeless, pneumonia
• Castulus – invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning
• Catherine of Vadstena – against abortion, miscarriage
• Christina the Astonishing – against insanity, mental disorders.
• Clementina Nengapeta - victims of rape, humour
• 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, HIV and AIDS
• Defendens – invoked against wolves and fires
• Deicolus – childhood illnesses
• Denise – against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents^[2][3]
• Deodatus of Nevers – against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague^[4]
• Dometius of Persia – invoked against sciatica^[5]
• Domninus of Fidenza – rabies
• Dymphna – sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness

E

• Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia - patron saint of pandemics^[6]
• Emygdius of Ascoli – invoked against earthquakes
• Engelmund of Velsen – invoked against toothache^[7]
• 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^[8]
• Expeditus – invoked against procrastination

F

• Felipe Ruiz Fraile - youth, tailors, cooks, slow learners
• Fiacre – Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
• Fillan – mental illness
• Florian – invoked against fire, floods and drowning
• Flora of Beaulieu - people who suffer depression
• Four Holy Marshals – epidemics, diseases^[9]
• 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
• Germaine Cousin - skin diseases, victims of child abuse
• Gertrude of Nivelles – invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.
• Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo – invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases^[10]
• 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
• John of God - the mentally ill
• John Berchmans -- students, youth
• John Macias - the souls in purgatory.
• Joseph – against doubt, against hesitation, dying people, expectant mothers, happy death, holy death, interior souls, people in doubt, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses
• Joseph of Anchieta – of those who suffer scoliosis
• Jude Thaddaeus – lost causes, desperate situations
• Julia of Corsica – pathologies of the hands and the feet
• Juliana of Nicomedia – childbirth, sickness
• John Henry Newman – against sepsis.

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
• Leoluca – invoked as a protector from natural disasters, plague, invasion.
• Liborius of Le Mans – against gallstones, colic^[11]
• 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^[12]
• 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^[13]
• St. Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
• Maximilian Kolbe – drug addiction
• Maximin of Trier – invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains
• 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^[14]
• Nicholas of Trani - the mentally ill, the homeless

O

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

P

• Pacificus of San Severino – chronic pain^[15]
• Paraskevi of Rome – protectress of blind people
• Patroclus of Troyes – demons, fever^[16]
• Peregrine of Auxerre – against snake bites^[17]
• Saint Peregrine Laziosi – cancer
• Saint Peter – involved against criminals
• Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – those who serve the sick^[18]
• 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 – protector of rape victims

Q

• Saint Quentin – coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.^[19]
• Quirinus of Neuss – invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout
• Quiteria – against rabies^[20]

R

• Rasso – invoked against stomach pains, especially in children
• Regina – against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims^[21]
• Reinildis – to cure open wounds, against eye diseases^[22][23]
• Reverianus – invoked against drought^[24]
• 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
• Sebastian - against plague
• Scholastica – convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain
• Servatius – invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice^[25]
• Silvia – invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children^[26]
• Sithney – invoked against rabies^[27]
• Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt – angina
• Symphorian – syphilis, eye troubles^[28]

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^{[29][page needed]}

U

• Ubald – migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder
• Urban of Langres – invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness^[30]
• Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne – invoked against stiff neck
• Ursus of Aosta – faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism^[31]

V

• Valentine – fainting, plague, epilepsy
• Victor of Marseilles – invoked against lightning^[32]
• Vitalis of Assisi – diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals
• Vitus – Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping

W

• Walter of Pontoise – invoked against stress^[33]
• Wilgefortis – people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.^[34]
• William Firmatus – against headache^[35]
• Willibrord – convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
• Winnoc – fever, whooping cough
• Wulfram of Sens – for protection against the dangers of the sea.

See also

•  Saints portal

• Patron saints of occupations and activities
• Patron saints of places
• Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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