André Bessette
Canada
patronage: Family caregivers in Canada.
- Spirituality — Patron Saint of Family Caregivers in Canada
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Augustine of Hippo
Converts
Traditional patronage includes converts, printers, and theologians.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo — Patron Saint of section
Colette of Corbie
Children
Invoked by couples hoping for children
- Saint Colette: Leader of Franciscan Reform — Invoked by childless couples
Colette of Corbie
Couples hoping for children
Invoked by couples hoping for children
- Saint Colette: Leader of Franciscan Reform — Invoked by childless couples
Edith Stein
Converts
Traditional patronage includes converts to Christianity.
- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross — Patron Saint of section
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Catholic schools
Traditional patronage includes Catholic schools, educators, teachers, people who have lost parents, and widows.
- Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton — Patron Saint of section
Francis Solanus
Chile
Argentina; Bolivia; Chile; Paraguay; Peru
- Francisco Solano — Patrono heading
Gianna Beretta Molla
Children
Popular devotional patronage includes doctors, unborn children, and wives.
- Saint Gianna Beretta Molla — Patron Saint of section
Isaac Jogues
Canada
patronage: Canada (with the Canadian Martyrs).
- Jogues, Isaac: heritage register — Synthèse, group patronage
James (son of Zebedee)
Chile
Traditional patronage includes Chile, laborers, Nicaragua, people with rheumatism, and Spain.
- Saint James — Patron Saint of section
Jean de Lalande
Canada
patronage: Canada (secondary patron).
- Saint Jean de la Lande — 1940 recognition
John de Brébeuf
Canada
patronage: Canada (secondary patron).
- North American Martyrs — Opening
Junípero Serra
California
The USCCB identifies Junípero Serra as patron of California.
- Who Was Junípero Serra? — Biographical summary
Lawrence
Cooks
Traditional patronage includes cooks, deacons, and poor people.
- Saint Lawrence — Patron Saint of section
Nicholas of Myra
Children
Traditional patronage includes bakers, brides and grooms, children, Greece, pawnbrokers, and travelers.
- Saint Nicholas — Patron Saint of section
Pancras of Rome
Children
patronage: Children (France), first communicants, keeping promises; invoked against headaches (traditional).
- Den hellige Pancratius av Roma (~290-304) — Patronage heading
Raymond Nonnatus
Children
Expectant mothers, Mercedarian novices, the falsely accused, Christian family life, and unborn children
- St. Raymond Nonnatus — Historical note, feast, patronage, iconography and cult decrees
Thomas Aquinas
Catholic schools
patronage: Catholic schools and universities.
- Audience, 16 June 2010 — Opening, Leo XIII patronage
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