List of patron saints by occupation and activity

A

Adrian of Nicomedia – arms dealers, butchers, guards, soldiers

Agatha – bakers, bellmaking, nurses

Albertus Magnus – natural scientists

Alexander of Comana – charcoal-burners

Alexius – belt makers and nurses

Aloysius Gonzaga – Catholic students, Jesuit scholastics

Amand – bartenders, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners,

Ambrose of Milan – bee keepers, beggars, candle-makers, chandlers, wax-melters and refiners

Anastasius the Fuller – fullers

Anastasia of Sirmium – weavers, healers, martyrs, exorcists

Andrew the Apostle – fishmongers, fishermen

Andrew Kim – clergy of Korea

Anne – miners, mothers, equestrians, cabinet makers, homemakers, stablemen, French-Canadian voyageurs, and sailors

Ansovinus – gardeners

Anthony Mary Claret – weavers

Anthony the Abbot – basket-makers, gravediggers, butchers, swineherds and motorists

Anthony of Padua – those seeking lost items or people, nomadic travelers, brush makers, women seeking a husband

Antipas – dentists

Apollonia – dentists

Arnold of Soissons – brewers

Arnulph – millers

Augustine of Hippo – printers, brewers and theologians

B

Barbara – miners, artillerymen, military engineers and firemen, Italian marines, architects, builders, foundry workers, fireworks makers, servicemen of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, mathematicians, geoscientist, stonemasons

Bartholomew the Apostle – leatherworkers, plasterers, tanners, trappers, curriers

Basil the Great – hospital administrators

Basilides - Italian prison officers

Basilissa - nursing mothers

Benedict of Nursia – farmers, farmhands, engineers, architects, Italian speleologists, students, husbandry, heraldry and officers of arms

Bénézet – bridge-builders

Benno – fishermen

Bernadette of Lourdes – shepherds

Bernardine of Feltre - pawnbrokers, bankers

Bernardine of Siena – advertisers

Bernard of Clairvaux – bee keepers, chandlers, advertisers, wax melters and refiners

Bernard of Menthon – mountaineers, skiers

Bernard of Vienne – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

Bernward of Hildesheim – architects

Blaise – veterinarians, wool combers and weavers, town criers

Boethius – philosophy

Bona of Pisa – flight attendants, travelers, specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims

Botulph – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

Brendan the Navigator – sailors, navigators, mariners, seafarers, those traveling by sea

Brigid of Ireland – dairy workers, scholars, nuns, medicine/healers

C

Cajetan – unemployed, gamblers, odd lot dealers, and of job seekers

Camillus of Lellis – nurses, hospital workers

Cassian of Imola – shorthand writers, stenographers, school teachers, parish clerks

Catherine of Alexandria – tanners, librarians, students, philosophers, secretaries, scribes, stenographers, preachers, nurses

Catherine of Siena – jurors, Italian nurses

Cecilia – musicians

Charles Borromeo – Catechists, seminarians

Christina the Astonishing – millers, psychiatrists

Christopher – travelers, bookbinders, gardeners, mariners, drivers, surfers, athletes, pilots

Clare of Assisi – theatre performers, embroiderers, gilders, laundry workers, goldsmiths

Claude – sculptors, secretaries

Clement – marble-workers, tanners, mariners, stonecutters

Columbanus – motorcyclists

Cosmas – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers

Crispin – tanners, shoemakers, cobblers, leatherworkers, curriers, saddle-makers

Cuthbert – shepherds

Cuthman – shepherds

D

Damian – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers

Dismas – undertakers

Dominic – astronomers, astronomy, scientists

Dominic de la Calzada – civil engineers

Dominic of Silos – shepherds

Dorothea of Caesarea – florists, horticulture, brewers

Drogo – coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, shepherds

Dunstan – blacksmiths, goldsmiths, musicians, locksmiths

Dymphna – mental health professionals, psychiatrists, therapists

E

Edward the Confessor – kings

Eligius – metal-workers, jewelers, mechanics, taxi drivers, farriers, harness makers, numismatists, Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers soldiers, veterinarians, farmers, farmhands, husbandry

Elisabeth of Hungary – bakers, beggars, nursing services

Elizabeth Seton - sailors

Erasmus of Formiae or Elmo – sailors, pyrotechnicians, steeplejacks, chimney sweeps and anyone who works at great heights

Ephrem the Syrian – spiritual directors and spiritual leaders

Eustachius – hunters, trappers, firefighters

F

Ferdinand III – engineers

Fiacre – taxi-drivers, veterinarians, drivers, gardeners, horticulturists

Florian – firefighters, chimney sweeps

Foillan – dentists, surgeons, truss-makers, children's nurses

Frances of Rome – automobile drivers

Francis de Sales – writers/authors, journalists

Francis of Assisi – ecologists, merchants, animal welfare, and rights workers

Francis Caracciolo – chefs

G

Archangel Gabriel – communications workers, postal workers, broadcasters, messengers, radio/television workers, radiologists, diplomats, ambassadors, emergency dispatchers, police dispatchers

Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows – students, seminarians, clerics, a society exists whose goal is to have Gabriel declared the patron saint of handgunners

Gangulphus – tanners, shoemakers

Gemma Galgani – students, pharmacists

Genesius – actors, comedians, clowns, dancers, theatrical performers of all kinds, also attorneys, barristers, lawyers

George – agricultural workers, archers, armourers, Boy Scouts, butchers, cavalry, soldiers, Crusaders, equestrians, horsemen, husbandry, knights, saddle makers, shepherds, Teutonic Knights (policemen and firefighters in Brazil)

Germaine Cousin – shepherdesses

Giles – beggars, spur makers

Gregory the Great – teachers

Gottschalk – linguists, princes, translators

Gummarus – lumberjacks

René Goupil – nurse anesthetists

H

Hervé – bards, musicians

Homobonus – businessmen, tailors, and clothworkers

Honorius of Amiens (Honoratus) – bakers, confectioners, bakers of holy wafers, candle-makers, florists, flour merchants, oil refiners, and pastry chefs

Hubertus – hunters, furriers

Hunna – laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen

I

Isidore the Farmer – farmers, farmhands, husbandry, manual laborers

Isidore of Seville – computer scientists, software engineers, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students

Ignatius of Loyola – Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Educators and Education.

J

Jadwiga of Poland – queens

James, son of Zebedee – veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists

James, son of Alphaeus – pharmacists

Jerome – librarians, translators, spectacle makers

Joan of Arc – Soldiers

John the Almoner – Knights Hospitaller

John the Apostle – tanners

John the Baptist – farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller

John of Damascus – makers of images of the crucifix

John the Evangelist – editors, authors, art dealers, tanners, and theologians

John of God – hospital workers, nurses, booksellers

John Baptist de la Salle – teachers of youth

John Berchmans – altar servers

John Bosco – apprentices, editors, printers/publishers

John Gualbert – foresters

John Vianney – priests

Joseph – cabinetmakers, carpenters, craftsmen, laborers, workers, and working people

Joseph of Arimathea – funeral directors, tinsmiths

Joseph of Cupertino – air travelers, aviators, astronauts, test takers, poor students

John of Capistrano – jurists

Jude (also known as Jude Thaddeus) – police officers, hospital workers, lost (or impossible) causes

Julian the Hospitaller – shepherds, boatmen

Justa and Rufina – potters

K

Kateri – ecologists, environmentalists, thomasites

L

Lawrence – librarians, archivists, students, tanners, cooks, comedians.

Leodegar – millers

Lidwina – ice skaters

Lucy - Sight

Luke the Evangelist – doctors, surgeons, artists, painters, notaries

M

Madeleine Sophie Barat - school girls

Marcellin Champagnat – education and teachers

Margaret of Antioch – nurses

Martha – dieticians, cooks

Mary Magdalene – tanners, hairdressers, pharmacists, prostitutes.

Magnus of Avignon – fish dealers, fishmongers

Albertus Magnus – chemists, medical technicians

Macarius of Unzha, Venerable – craftsmen, merchants, travelers

Malo – pig-keepers

Martin of Tours – soldiers

Matthew – accountants, tax collectors, bankers, bookkeepers, joiners, custom agents, security guards, perfumers

Maturinus – comic actors, jesters, clowns, sailors (in Brittany), tinmen (in Paris) and of plumbers.

Maurice and Lydia – dyers

Maurice – infantrymen

Michael the Archangel – soldiers, paramedics, paratroopers, police officers, security officers

N

Nicholas of Myra – sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, the falsely accused, brewers, pawnbrokers and students in various cities and countries around Europe

Nicholas of Tolentine – Mariners

Notburga – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

O

Our Lady of Salambao – fishermen

Our Lady of Loreto – aviators

P

Pantaleon – doctors, midwives, physicians

Patrick – engineers

Paul the Apostle – hospital public relations

Peter the Apostle – popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, bridge builders, cloth makers

Peter of Alcantara – guards

Peter Damian – traceurs/freerunners

Phocas the Gardener – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

Pope John XXIII – Papal delegates

Pope Celestine V – bookbinders

Piran – tinners, tin miners

Philip – Special Forces

Q

Quentin – bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, surgeons

R

Raphael the Archangel – doctors, pharmacists, nurses, shepherds, matchmakers, travelers

Raymond Nonnatus – midwives, obstetricians

Raymond of Penyafort – medical record librarians, Canon lawyers

Rebekah – physicists

Regina – shepherdesses

John Regis – medical social workers

Reinold – Stonemasons

Robert Bellarmine – Catechists

Roch – surgeons, tile-makers, second-hand dealers, gravediggers

Rose of Lima – embroiderers, gardeners

S

Sebastian – soldiers, athletes

Scott – patience and tolerance, Origin : Norwich

Severus of Avranches – silk and wool makers, drapers; milliners and hatters

Simon – tanners

Solange – shepherdesses

Stephen – bricklayers, casketmakers, deacons, altar servers

T

Tatiana of Rome – students

Theobald of Provins – Farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, beltmakers, charcoal-burners

Thérèse of Lisieux – florists, aviators, missionaries

Thomas – architects, politicians

Thomas Aquinas – students, teachers, academics

Thomas Becket – diocesan priests

Thomas More – politicians, statesmen, lawyers, civil servants, court clerks

U

Urban of Langres – vine-growers, vine-dressers, gardeners, vintners, and coopers

Ursula – archers, orphans, students

V

Valentine – beekeeping

Venerius the Hermit – lighthouse keepers

Veronica – laundry workers; photographers

Vincent of Saragossa – winemakers

Vincent de Paul – hospital workers

Vincent Ferrer – builders

Vitus – comedians, dancers

W

Walstan – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

Winnoc – millers

Wolbodo – students

Wolfgang of Regensburg – woodworkers, woodcarvers

X

Frances Xavier Cabrini – hospital administrators

Y

Yves – lawyers

Z

Zeno of Verona – fishermen

Zita – domestic servants, waiters