Barbara
Miners
Traditional patronage includes artillery personnel, miners, and protection from thunderstorms and fire.
- St. Barbara — Popular cult and patronage paragraphs
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Cecilia
Musicians
Musicians and church music (traditional)
- Address to the Italian Association of Saint Cecilia — Paragraph 2
Dymphna
Mental illness
patronage: People with mental illness; Geel.
- Sainte Dymphne de Gheel — Patronage paragraphs
Felicity
Mothers
Traditional patronage includes widows and mothers of deceased sons.
- Saints Perpetua and Felicity — Patron Saints of section
Francis Xavier
Missions
Traditional patronage includes Japan, jewelers, missions, and sailors.
- Saint Francis Xavier — Patron Saint of section
Francis of Assisi
Merchants
Traditional patronage includes animals, archaeologists, ecology, merchants, messengers, metal workers, and Italy.
- Saint Francis of Assisi — Patron Saint of section
Francis of Assisi
Messengers
Traditional patronage includes animals, archaeologists, ecology, merchants, messengers, metal workers, and Italy.
- Saint Francis of Assisi — Patron Saint of section
Francis of Assisi
Metal workers
Traditional patronage includes animals, archaeologists, ecology, merchants, messengers, metal workers, and Italy.
- Saint Francis of Assisi — Patron Saint of section
Gerard Majella
Mothers
The Redemptorists invoke Gerard as patron of mothers, especially during pregnancy
- Redemptorists Baltimore Province: St. Gerard Majella — canonization and patronage paragraph
Gianna Beretta Molla
Mothers
patronage: Mothers, physicians, unborn children (popular devotional patronage).
- Mamma mi ha dato la vita due volte: mi ha concepito ed e morta per me — Patrona dei bambini non ancora nati; e considerata
Gregory the Great
Musicians
Traditional patronage includes England, epilepsy, musicians, and teachers.
- Saint Gregory the Great — Patron Saint of section
John of Capistrano
Military chaplains
Military chaplains
- Synod Bulletin, 23 October 2009 — Synod bulletin 29, line 45
Kinga of Poland
Miners
Salt miners
- Legenda o świętej Kindze — Miners' devotion paragraph
Monica of Hippo
Mothers
Traditional patronage includes alcoholics, conversion, mothers, and wives.
- Saint Monica — Patron Saint of section
Perpetua
Mothers
Traditional patronage includes widows and mothers of deceased sons.
- Saints Perpetua and Felicity — Patron Saints of section
Raymond Nonnatus
Mothers
Expectant mothers, Mercedarian novices, the falsely accused, Christian family life, and unborn children
- St. Raymond Nonnatus — Historical note, feast, patronage, iconography and cult decrees
Thérèse of Lisieux
Missions
Pius XI proclaimed Thérèse universal patroness of the missions with Francis Xavier on December 14, 1927.
- General Audience: Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, patron of the missions — Life conclusion; mission patronage
Toribio Romo
Migrants
Migrants (popular devotion)
- Santo Toribio, patrono de los migrantes — Opening
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