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
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Catherine of Genoa
Hospitals
Secondary patron of Italian hospitals.
- Inter gravissimas, 15 September 1943 — Declaration beginning Quapropter
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
Pancras of Rome
Headaches
patronage: Children (France), first communicants, keeping promises; invoked against headaches (traditional).
- Den hellige Pancratius av Roma (~290-304) — Patronage heading
Stephen I of Hungary
Hungary
Hungary
- Szent István király — Final calendar paragraph: principal patron
Teresa of Ávila
Headaches
Traditional patronage includes relief from headaches.
- Saint Teresa of Avila — Patron Saint of section
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