| MONTH |
DAY
|
SAINT |
PATRON SAINT OF |
| January
|
|
Clarus, Abbot |
Short-sightedness |
| |
|
Basil the Great |
Russia |
| |
|
Genevieve (Genofeva) |
Paris;
disasters; drought; rain (excessive); fever; security
forces (French) |
| |
|
Raymund of Peñafort |
Lawyers,
including canon lawyers; schools and faculties of law |
| |
|
Antony the Abbot |
Skin
diseases; domestic animals; pets; basket makers; St
Antony's Fire |
| |
|
Sebastian |
Municipal,
or local, police; neighbourhood watch; archers; soldiers;
contagious diseases; plague; physicians; surgeons |
| |
|
Vincent Pallotti |
Missionary
priests |
| |
|
Vincent of Saragossa |
Wine-growers;
vinegar makers |
| |
|
Francis de Sales |
journalists;
writers; editors |
| |
|
Thomas Aquinas |
Roman
Catholic schools; colleges; academies and universities;
scholars; students; apologists; philosophers;
theologians; booksellers |
| |
|
John Bosco |
Editors;
apprentices and young people; young people, Mexican |
| |
|
|
|
| February
|
|
Brigid (Bride) |
Ireland |
| |
|
Anskar |
Denmark;
Germany; Iceland |
| |
|
Blaise |
Throat
infections |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Suyapa |
Honduras |
| |
|
John de Britto |
Missions,
Portuguese |
| |
|
Joseph of Leonessa |
Capuchin
missions to Turkey |
| |
|
Agatha |
Bell
founders; volcanic eruptions; fire (danger from) |
| |
|
Amand |
Brewers;
wine merchants and trade |
| |
|
Apollonia |
Dentists;
toothache sufferers |
| |
|
Jerome Emiliani |
Orphans
and abandoned children |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Immaculate |
Philippines;
Portugal |
| |
|
Cyril and Methodius |
Yugoslavia;
Czechoslovakia; Bohemia; Moravia; Europe |
| |
|
Valentine |
Lovers |
| |
|
Gabriel Possenti |
Students;
clergy; young people in Catholic Action in Italy |
| |
|
|
|
| March
|
|
David (Dewi), bishop |
Wales |
| |
|
Cunegund |
Luxembourg;
Lithuania |
| |
|
Adrian of Nicomedia |
Arms
dealers; butchers; prison guards |
| |
|
Casimir of Poland |
Lithuania;
Russia; young people, Lithuanian |
| |
|
John of God |
Hospitals;
the sick; nurses; booksellers; bookbinders; book trade |
| |
|
Dominic Savio |
Pueri
cantores; choirs and choirboys; boys, and juvenile
delinquents |
| |
|
Frances of Rome |
Widows;
motorists |
| |
|
Louise de Marillac |
Social
workers |
| |
|
Joseph of Arimathea |
Gravediggers;
coffin-bearers, pallbearers; cemetery keepers and
caretakers; tin miners |
| |
|
Patrick |
Ireland;
Nigeria |
| |
|
(Bd) Fra Angelico |
Painters;
artists |
| |
|
Venantius |
Leaping |
| |
|
Joseph, husband of Our Lady |
The
universal church; opposition to communism; workers;
carpenters; joiners; cabinet makers; doubters;
travellers; house hunting; death (happy); the dying;
Austria; Belgium; Bohemia; Canada; Mexico; Peru; Russia;
Vietnam (south); missions to the Chinese |
| |
|
Nicolas von Flue |
Switzerland |
| |
|
Turibius |
Bishops
of Latin America |
| |
|
Catherine of Sweden |
Abortion |
| |
|
Dismas |
Theft,
thieves; condemned criminals; undertakers |
| |
|
|
|
| April |
|
Francis of Paola |
Sailors;
naval officers; navigators; pilots, maritime |
| |
|
John Baptist de la Salle |
School
teachers |
| |
|
Stanislaus |
Poland |
| |
|
Magnus of Orkney |
Norway |
| |
|
Expeditus |
Urgent
cases; (against) procrastination |
| |
|
Adalbert |
Czechoslovakia
(Bohemia); Poland; Prussia |
| |
|
George |
England;
Order of the Carter; Cavalry, Italian |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Mother of Good Counsel |
Albania |
| |
|
Zita |
Servants |
| |
|
Peter Mary Chanel |
Oceania |
| |
|
Catherine of Siena |
Italy;
nurses, Italian |
| |
|
Adjutor (Ayoutre) |
Drowning
(against death by); swimmers |
| |
|
|
|
| May |
|
Peregrine Laziosi |
Cancer
sufferers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Queen of Poland |
Poland |
| |
|
James the Less, Apostle |
The
dying |
| |
|
Philip and James, apostles |
Uruguay |
| |
|
Philip of Zell |
Babies;
small children |
| |
|
Florian |
Water,
danger from, and flood; Austria; Poland |
| |
|
(Bd) John of Avila |
Clergy,
diocesan or secular (Spanish) |
| |
|
Cathal |
Hernia
sufferers |
| |
|
Gengulf |
Marriage
(unhappy) |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Immaculate, 'Aparecida' |
Brazil |
| |
|
Dympna |
Nervous
diseases; mental illness; asylums (for mentally ill);
nurses (of mentally ill); epilepsy; possession (by the
Devil); sleepwalkers |
| |
|
Isodore the Farmer |
Farmers
and farm labourers; Madrid |
| |
|
Honoratus |
Millers;
bakers; cake makers |
| |
|
John Nepomucen |
Czechoslovakia;
Bohemia; confessors; bridges; slander or detraction
(against) |
| |
|
Ubald |
Dog
bites; rabies; hydrophobia |
| |
|
Paschal Baylon |
Shepherds;
the eucharist; eucharistic guilds and congresses; Italian
women |
| |
|
Venantius |
Falling;
jumping; leaping |
| |
|
Celestine V (pope) |
Bookbinders |
| |
|
Ivo of Kermartin |
Lawyers,
advocates; canon lawyers; judges and notaries; abandoned
children; orphans; Brittany |
| |
|
Pudentiana |
Philippines |
| |
|
Bernardino of Siena |
Advertisers
and advertising; hoarseness |
| |
|
Rita of Cascia |
Hopeless
(or desperate) cases; parenthood; children, desire for;
infertility |
| |
|
Mary B.V., Our Lady Help of Christians |
Australia;
New Zealand; Chaplains, military, Australian; security
forces, Andorran |
| |
|
Mark |
Cattle
breeders, Spanish; Egypt; Venice; notaries |
| |
|
Bernard of Montjoux |
Mountaineers
or mountain climbers; alpinists; travellers in, or
inhabitants of, the Alps |
| |
|
Bona |
Air
hostesses, air stewardesses, or flight attendants |
| |
|
Ferdinand 111 of Castile |
Rulers,
persons in authority, governers, magistrates; the poor;
prisoners; engineers, Spanish military |
| |
|
Joan of Arc |
France,
and French soldiers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Mediatrix of All Graces |
Chaplains,
military, Belgian |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Justin Martyr |
Philosophers
and philosophy; apologists |
| |
|
Erasmus (Elmo) |
Sailors;
stomach pains; abdominal pains; colic; childbirth; women
in labour |
| |
|
Charles Lwanga |
African
Catholic youth action; young people, African |
| |
|
Columba, or Colmcille |
Ireland |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Graces |
Skiers |
| |
|
Barnabas, Apostle |
Cyprus |
| |
|
Onuphrius |
Weavers |
| |
|
Antony of Padua |
Lost
articles; Portugal; the poor; harvests |
| |
|
Vitus |
Epilepsy;
nervous diseases; dancers; actors; comedians; Sicily;
lightning and storms, protection against; animals, danger
from; snakebite |
| |
|
John Francis Regis |
Marriage;
children, illegitimate or born out of wedlock; social
workers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Consolation |
Pensioners
and old people |
| |
|
Aloysius |
Young
people, Christian; students in Jesuit colleges |
| |
|
Vincent of Saragossa |
Winegrowers |
| |
|
Joseph Cafasso |
Prisoners
(Italian); spiritual directors of clergy |
| |
|
John the Baptist(birthday) |
Motorways;
spas |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Perpetual Succour |
Haiti |
| |
|
Basilides |
Prison
officers (Italian) |
| |
|
Paul, Apostle |
Action,
Catholic; lay apostolate; Cursillo movement; Greece;
Malta |
| |
|
Peter, Prince of the Apostles |
Fishermen |
| |
|
|
|
| July |
|
Processus and Martinian |
Prison
officers |
| |
|
Thomas, Apostle |
Builders,
building craftsmen and construction workers; masons;
architects; carpenters; joiners; quantity surveyors; also
blind people; India and Pakistan |
| |
|
Bd Maria Teresa Ledochowska |
Missions,
Polish |
| |
|
Maria Goretti |
Children
of Mary; teenage girls |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Chevremont |
Sportsmen
and sportswomen (Belgian) |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Queen of Peace |
Victims
of war (civilian) |
| |
|
Benedict, Abbot |
Europe;
Italian knights of labour; farm workers; Italian farmers;
Engineers, Italian; speleologists(potholers or
spelunkers); architects, Italian; poison; the dying |
| |
|
John Gualbert |
Foresters;
park keepers |
| |
|
Henry the Emperor |
Finland |
| |
|
Camillus de Lellis |
Nurses,
and nurses' associations |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
Bolivia;
Chile; Navy, Spanish |
| |
|
Efijah, prophet |
Flying |
| |
|
Margaret (Marina) |
Childbirth;
pregnant women; death |
| |
|
Bridget (Birgitte) |
Sweden |
| |
|
Christopher |
Travellers;
safe journeys; motorists; pilgrims |
| |
|
James the Greater, Apostle |
Spain;
Guatemala; Nicaragua |
| |
|
Anne |
Miners;
childless women |
| |
|
Pantaleon |
Doctors
or physicians; the medical profession in general |
| |
|
Martha |
Housewives;
servants; hoteliers (Italian); waiters and waitresses |
| |
|
Olaf |
Norway |
| |
|
Abdon and Sennen |
Barrel
makers, or coopers |
| |
|
Ignatius of Loyola |
Retreats;
spiritual exercises; scruples |
| |
|
|
|
| August |
|
Alphonsus de' Liguori |
Confessors;
moral theologians |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of the Angels |
Costa
Rica |
| |
|
John Vianney |
Priests
and parochial clergy |
| |
|
Cyriacus |
Possession
(by the Devil) |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Great Queen of Hungary |
Hungary |
| |
|
Emygdius |
Earthquakes |
| |
|
Alexander the Charcoal-burner |
Charcoal-burners |
| |
|
Clare |
Embroiderers;
television |
| |
|
Cassian of Imola |
Shorthand
writers and stenographers |
| |
|
Hippolytus |
Prison
officers; horses |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., on the Feast of her Assumption |
France;
aircrew (French); Paraguay; soldiers(Paraguayan);
Southern Africa; New Caledonia; Jamaica |
| |
|
Stephen of Hungary |
Hungary |
| |
|
Roch |
Contagious diseases; plague; cholera;
physicians; surgeons; cattle; prisoners; Istanbul |
| |
|
Bernard of Clairvaux |
Gibraltar |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., The Most Pure Heart of Mary |
Africa,
Central; Angola; Ecuador |
| |
|
Rose of Lima |
Peru;
Central and South America; Philippines; India; security
forces, Peruvian; nurses(Peruvian); florists and gardens |
| |
|
Genesius the Comedian |
Actors;
theatrical profession |
| |
|
Louis of France |
French
monarchy; French soldiers; sculptors; stonemasons; marble
workers; button makers; Franciscan tertiaries |
| |
|
Teresa of Jesus Jornet e Ibars |
Old
people, or senior citizens; old age pensioners |
| |
|
Monica |
Mothers |
| |
|
John the Baptist('Beheading') |
Jordan |
| |
|
Raymund Nonnatus |
Midwives;
children; childbirth; pregnant women; innocent people
(falsely accused) |
| |
|
|
|
| September
|
|
Fiacre |
Gardeners;
horticulturalists; sufferers from venereal disease;
haemorrhoid sufferers; cab or taxi drivers |
| |
|
Ciles |
Cripples
and the lame; beggars; lepers; nursing mothers and breast
feeding |
| |
|
Basilissa |
Nursing
mothers; breast feeding; chilblains |
| |
|
Gregory the Great, pope |
Music;
plague |
| |
|
Rose of Viterbo |
Florists
and flower growers |
| |
|
Magnus of Fussen |
Protection
of crops against vermin; and against hail, storms and
lightning |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., The Birthday of the Blessed
Virgin of Charity |
Cuba |
| |
|
Peter Claver |
Missions
to the negro slaves; Colombia |
| |
|
Nicholas of Tolentino |
The
dying; souls in purgatory; fires; sickness in animals;
babies; mothers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Coromoto |
Venezuela |
| |
|
John Chrysostom |
Preaching;
oratory (sacred); eloquence, (sacred); Constantinople |
| |
|
Venerius |
Lighthouse
keepers |
| |
|
Catherine of Genoa |
Nurses,
Italian |
| |
|
Cyprian |
Algeria;
North Africa |
| |
|
Ludmila |
Czechoslovakia |
| |
|
Robert Bellarmine |
Catechists
and catechumens |
| |
|
Joseph of Cupertino |
Students
and examinees; flying and aviation; astronauts |
| |
|
Eustace |
Huntsmen;
difficult or desperate situations |
| |
|
Matthew |
Accountants;
tax collectors; customs officers; security guards |
| |
|
Maurice |
Soldiers;
Alpine troops; Austria; Piedmont; Savoy; Sardinia; dyers;
weavers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Mercy |
Dominican
Republic; army, Argentinian; army, Ecuadorian |
| |
|
Joseph Calasanctius |
Schools,
All Christian |
| |
|
Cosmas
and Damian |
Doctors; physicians; surgeons;
pharmacists and chemists; druggists; apothecaries;
barbers and hairdressers; blind people |
| |
|
Vincent
de Paul |
Charities; Madagascar; hospitals;
prisons |
| |
|
(Bd)
Bernardino of Feltre |
Pawnbrokers; bankers |
| |
|
Wenceslaus |
Czechoslovakia; Bohemia and Moravia;
brewers |
| |
|
Gabriel
the Archangel |
Telecommunications; television and
radio; signallers, military; diplomatic services;
ambassadors, Argentina; postal services; stamp collectors
and philatelists |
| |
|
Michael
the Archangel |
Battle; security forces; paratroops;
Brussels; banking; radiologists, radiotherapists; death;
England; Germany; Gibraltar; Papua New Guinea; Solomon
Islands; the sick; possession(by the Devil); Gibraltar |
| |
|
Raphael
the Archangel |
Travellers and safe journeys; young
people(leaving home); diseases of the eye; blind people;
pharmacists; health inspectors |
| |
|
Jerome
|
Scripture scholars and exegetes |
| |
|
|
|
| October |
|
Thérèse
of Lisieux |
Missions; florists and flower
growers; France |
| |
|
The
Guardian Angels |
Police, Spanish |
| |
|
Francis
of Assisi |
Italy; merchants, Italian; ecologists
and ecology |
| |
|
Mary,
B.V., Our Lady of the Rosary 'La Naval' |
Navy, Philippine |
| |
|
Andronicus
(with Athanasia) |
Silversmiths |
| |
|
Denis,
bishop of Paris |
Paris; France; headaches |
| |
|
Louis
Bertrand |
Colombia |
| |
|
Francis
Borgia |
Portugal; earthquakes |
| |
|
Mary,
B.V., Our Lady of the Pillar |
Police, Spanish |
| |
|
Coloman
|
Austria |
| |
|
Teresa
of Avila |
Writers (Spanish Catholic);
Commissariat, Spanish military |
| |
|
Call |
Birds |
| |
|
Gerard
Majella |
Mothers |
| |
|
Luke |
The medical profession, doctors and
physicians; artists, painters and sculptors; craft
workers; lacemakers; notaries; butchers |
| |
|
The
martyrs of North America |
Canada |
| |
|
John
of Capistrano |
Chaplains, military, in general |
| |
|
Anthony
Claret |
Weavers; savings banks |
| |
|
Crispin
and Crispinian |
Shoemakers; cobblers; leatherworkers |
| |
|
Jude
|
Hopeless or desperate cases or
situations |
| |
|
|
|
| November
|
|
Hubert |
Hunting and huntsmen; (against)
rabies or hydrophobia |
| |
|
Martin
de Porres |
Social justice; education, public;
television(Peru); trade unionists (Spanish); health
service(Peru); people of mixed race; hairdressers and
barbers (Italian) |
| |
|
Pirminus
|
Poison; snake-bite |
| |
|
Charles Borromeo |
Catechists and catechumens |
| |
|
Leonard of Noblac |
Childbirth; prisoners; brigands,
robbers and thieves (danger from) |
| |
|
Willibrord |
Holland, or the Netherlands;
Luxembourg |
| |
|
Four Crowned Martyrs |
Stonemasons; sculptors; workers in
marble |
| |
|
Andrew Avellino |
Death, sudden; apoplexy; Naples;
Sicily |
| |
|
Martin of Tours |
Soldiers; infantry; cavalry; horses
and horse riders; beggars; geese; winegrowers |
| |
|
Lebuin (Liafwine) |
Dying |
| |
|
Frances Xavier Cabrini |
Migrants and emigrants |
| |
|
Homobonus |
Merchants; business people;
tradespeople; tailors; clothworkers; shoemakers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., The Health of the Sick |
The sick of Poland |
| |
|
Stanislaus Kostka |
Young people; Poland |
| |
|
Albert the Great |
Scientists |
| |
|
Leopold |
Austria |
| |
|
John Francis Regis |
Social workers |
| |
|
Elizabeth of Hungary |
Charities, Catholic |
| |
|
Gregory the Wonderworker |
Desperate cases or situations;
earthquake; flood |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Chiquinquira |
Colombia; National Guard, Venezuelan |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Faithful Virgin |
Police, Italian |
| |
|
Cecilia |
Music |
| |
|
Catherine of Alexandria |
Philosophers and philosophy;
Christian apologists; learning; women students and young
women; librarians, libraries; wheelwrights |
| |
|
John Berchmans |
Young people, particularly students;
altar servers |
| |
|
Leonard of Port Maurice |
Missioners in Catholic lands |
| |
|
Maximus |
Dying |
| |
|
|
|
| December |
|
Eligius (Eloi) |
Goldsmiths; silversmiths;
metalworkers; jewellers; craftsmen and women; coin and
medal collectors; horses; veterinarians; blacksmiths;
garage, or gas station, workers |
| |
|
Francis Xavier |
Missions; India; Pakistan; Outer
Mongolia; tourism (Spanish); pelota players of Argentina |
| |
|
Oliver Plunket |
Urban University, Rome |
| |
|
Barbara |
Gunners; artillery; marines, military
engineers, and firemen (Italian); miners |
| |
|
Nicholas of Bari |
Children; brides; unmarried women;
pawnbrokers; perfumers or perfumiers; Russia; travellers
and pilgrims; sailors; pilots, maritime |
| |
|
Ambrose |
Commissariat, French military |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., The Immaculate Conception |
Spain; United States of America;
soldiers, American Catholic; Equatorial Guinea; Tanzania;
Zaire; Inner Mongolia; chaplains, military, Spanish;
chaplains, military, Philippine |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Loreto |
Aircrew and pilots; aircrew, Spanish;
aircrew, Belgian; aviation; fliers; Air Force,
Argentinian |
| |
|
Damasus |
Archaeologists |
| |
|
Gentian |
Innkeepers; hoteliers |
| |
|
Mary, B.V., Our Lady of Guadalupe |
Central and South America; Mexico;
students of Peru |
| |
|
Lucy |
Sufferers from eye trouble; glaziers;
sufferers from haemorrhage, and from throat infections |
| |
|
Thorlac |
Iceland |
| |
|
Stephen |
Bricklayers, stonemasons and workers
in building trades; deacons |
| |
|
John, Apostle and Evangelist |
Poison, protection against; Turkey
(Asiatic) |
| |
|
The Holy Innocents |
Babies |
| |
|
Andrew, Apostle Mary, B.V., Our Lady of
Lujan |
Scotland; Russia; fishermen
Argentina; chaplains, military, Argentinian |
