Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers
Saints invoked for protection from, or aid struggling with, various troubles
Saint Roch is invoked against the bubonic plague .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.
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Cancer - Peregrine Laziosi
Breast cancer - Agatha
Stomach cancer, youth, people who suffer from shyness - Alfie Lambe
Invoked against cattle diseases - Berlinda of Meerbeke [ 4]
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 [ 5]
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 [ 6]
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 or St Elmo
Convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics - Willibrord
Coughs, sneezes, and dropsy - Quentin [ 7]
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
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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 [ 8]
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 [ 9]
Against drought - Trophimus of Arles
Those in danger of drowning - Hyacinth
Drug addiction - Maximilian Kolbe
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Invoked against earthquakes - Emygdius of Ascoli
Epidemics, diseases - Four Holy Marshals [ 10]
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
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Fainting, plague, epilepsy - Valentine
Against diseases in the feet - Saint Alphonsa
Invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice - Servatius [ 11]
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
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Rabies - Domninus of Fidenza Rabies - Hubert of Liège
Against rabies - Quiteria – [ 21]
Invoked against rabies - Sithney [ 22]
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 [ 23]
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
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Invoked against sciatica - Dometius of Persia [ 24]
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 [ 25]
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 [ 26]
Stress relief and New year blues - Saint Pio of Pietrelcina Invoked against stress - Walter of Pontoise [ 27]
Students, youth - John Berchmans
Sudden death - Andrew Avellino Syphilis , eye troubles - Symphorian [ 28]
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See also
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