Anthony of Egypt
Skin diseases
Traditional patronage includes butchers, gravediggers, and people with skin diseases.
- Saint Anthony of Egypt — Patron Saint of section
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- Addiction recovery (2)
- Blood donors (2)
- Epilepsy (2)
- Eye disorders (3)
- Headaches (2)
- Hospitals (3)
- Mental illness (1)
- People with disabilities (1)
- Sick people (1)
- Skin diseases (1)
- Throat ailments (1)
Augustine of Hippo
Eye disorders
Catholic devotional tradition associates Augustine with patronage of sore eyes.
- St. Augustine Our Patron Saint — Final paragraph on patronage
Blaise
Throat ailments
Traditional patronage includes relief from throat ailments and English wool combers.
- Saint Blaise — Patron Saint of section
Camillus de Lellis
Hospitals
Sick people and hospitals: Leo XIII, 1886; healthcare personnel: Pius XI, 1930; Italian military health services: Paul VI, 1974.
- Address to the Camillian family, 15 May 2000 — Section 1
Camillus de Lellis
Sick people
Sick people and hospitals: Leo XIII, 1886; healthcare personnel: Pius XI, 1930; Italian military health services: Paul VI, 1974.
- Address to the Camillian family, 15 May 2000 — Section 1
Catherine of Genoa
Hospitals
Secondary patron of Italian hospitals.
- Inter gravissimas, 15 September 1943 — Declaration beginning Quapropter
Clare of Assisi
Eye disorders
Traditional patronage includes television and protection from eye disorders.
- Saint Clare of Assisi — Patron Saint of section
Dymphna
Mental illness
patronage: People with mental illness; Geel.
- Sainte Dymphne de Gheel — Patronage paragraphs
Elizabeth of Hungary
Hospitals
patronage: Hospitals, nurses and Secular Franciscans (Franciscan Mission Associates attestation).
- Prayer for St. Elizabeth of Hungary — Heading; devotional attestation, not a universal decree
Giles
People with disabilities
People with disabilities, beggars, and those seeking a difficult confession (traditional)
- St. Giles — Cult and patronage traditions
Gregory the Great
Epilepsy
Traditional patronage includes England, epilepsy, musicians, and teachers.
- Saint Gregory the Great — Patron Saint of section
Januarius of Naples
Blood donors
Traditional patronage includes blood banks, blood donors, and Naples.
- Saint Januarius — Patron Saint of section
Lucy
Eye disorders
Traditional patronage includes blind people and people with eye disorders.
- Saint Lucy — Patron Saint of section
Maximilian Kolbe
Blood donors
Blood donors.
- 84th anniversary of the death of Father Maximilian Kolbe — Final paragraph, designation in 1999
Maximilian Kolbe
Addiction recovery
Traditional patronage includes people with addictions and recovery from drug addiction.
- Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe — Patron Saint of section
Monica of Hippo
Addiction recovery
Traditional patronage includes alcoholics, conversion, mothers, and wives.
- Saint Monica — Patron Saint of section
Pancras of Rome
Headaches
patronage: Children (France), first communicants, keeping promises; invoked against headaches (traditional).
- Den hellige Pancratius av Roma (~290-304) — Patronage heading
Teresa of Ávila
Headaches
Traditional patronage includes relief from headaches.
- Saint Teresa of Avila — Patron Saint of section
Vitus
Epilepsy
People living with epilepsy or involuntary movement
- Vitus, St — Later invocation against epilepsy and chorea
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