Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers

A

Abd-al-Masih – sterile women (in Syria)

Saint Abel – patron of the blind and the lame

Abhai – poisonous reptiles

Agapitus of Palestrina – invoked against colic

Agatha – breast cancer

Agathius – headache

Agricola of Avignon – bubonic plague, misfortunes

Agrippina of Mineo – invoked against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections

Albinus of Angers – against pirate attack

Aloysius Gonzaga – the blind

Amabilis of Riom – invoked against fire, snakes, and snake bites; also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts

Andrew Avellino – sudden death

Andrew Corsini – riot, civil disorder

Anthony – skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire

Anthony of Padua – Missing people and lost things

Apollinaris – epilepsy, gout

Apollonia – toothache

Arthelais – kidnapping, illness

Aspren – invoked against migraine

Audoin (Ouen) – deafness

Augustine of Hippo – sore eyes

Adrian of Nicomedia – plague, epilepsy

B

Balbina – scrofula

Berlinda of Meerbeke – invoked against cattle diseases

Bernardino of Siena – chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions

Bessus – protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility.

Blaise – ailments of the throat

C

Cajetan – invoked against illegal gamblings

Castulus – invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning.

Catherine of Vadstena – against abortion, miscarriage

Chad of Mercia – against the losers, defeats, disappointed and unsuccessful.

Christina the Astonishing – against insanity, mental disorders.

Coloman – plague, sick horses, against hanging

Conrad of Piacenza -against hernias

Cornelius – invoked against epilepsy, cramps, afflictions associated with the nerves and ears.

Crescentinus – headache

Cyriacus – eye disease

D

Damien of Molokai – leprosy

Defendens – invoked against wolves and fires

Deicolus – childhood illnesses

Denise – against headaches and motorcycle/bicycle accidents

Deodatus of Nevers – against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague

Dometius of Persia -invoked against sciatica

Domninus of Fidenza – rabies

Dymphna – sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness

E

Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia - patron saint of pandemics

Emygdius of Ascoli – invoked against earthquakes

Engelmund of Velsen – invoked against toothache

Epipodius – victims of betrayal and of torture

Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo – invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour

Eurosia – invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning

Expeditus – invoked against procrastination

F

Fiacre – Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids

Fillan – mental illness

Florian – invoked against fire, floods and drowning

Four Holy Marshals – epidemics, diseases

Fourteen Holy Helpers – epidemics, bubonic plague or the Black Death

G

Gangulphus – eye and skin conditions; knee pains; invoked against adultery and marital difficulties

Gemma Galgani – invoked against spinal injuries, back pain, headaches, loss of parents

Genesius of Rome – actors, clowns, comedians, comics, converts, dancers, musicians, stenographers, printers, lawyers, epileptics, thieves, torture victims

Gerard of Lunel – invoked against epilepsy and headaches

Gerard Majella – pregnancy

Gereon – headaches, migraine

Gertrude of Nivelles – invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice.

Godelina – throat trouble

Gotthard of Hildesheim – invoked against fever, dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout.

Gratus of Aosta – against lightning; fear of insects

Guy of Anderlecht – invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions

H

Hemma of Gurk – invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye

Hermes – mental illnesses

Harvey – eye problems, eye disease

Hippolytus of Rome – sick horses

Hubertus - Rabies

Hugh of Cluny – fever

Hyacinth – those in danger of drowning

J

James the Great – rheumatism

John of Bridlington – women in difficult labor

Joseph – against doubt, against hesitation, dying people, expectant mothers, happy death, holy death, interior souls, people in doubt, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses.

Jude Thaddaeus – lost causes, desperate situations

Julia of Corsica – pathologies of the hands and the feet

Juliana of Nicomedia – childbirth, sickness

K

Kentigern – against bullies and verbal abuse

L

Lorenzo Ruiz – poor, immigrants, migrant workers, separated families

Leodegar (Saint Mungo) – blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes

Liborius of Le Mans – against gallstones, colic

Lucy of Syracuse – haemorrhage, eye complaints

M

Macrina the Elder – poverty

Mammes – protector of sufferers from broken bones and hernias

Marciana of Mauretania -invoked to cure wounds

Marculf – scrofula, diseases of the skin

Mary Magdalene – people ridiculed for their piety, penitent sinners, prostitutes, repentance, sexual temptation

Maria Goretti -victims of rape, crime victims, invoked against pedophiles.

Martin of Tours – Soldiers, Beggars, Alcoholics

Maturinus – invoked against mental illness and infertility

Saint Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy

Maximilian Kolbe – drug addiction

Maximin of Trier – invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains

Saint Medard – toothache

Michael – against danger at sea, against temptations, holy death, sick people, storms at sea

Miliau – against rheumatism

N

Natalia of Nicomedia – plague, epilepsy

Nonnosus – diseases of the kidneys, invoked against physical defects, back pains, and school-related students' crises

O

Saint Olaf – difficult marriage

Saint Ovidius – auditory conditions and diseases

P

Paraskevi of Rome – protectress of blind people

Patroclus of Troyes – demons, fever

Peregrine of Auxerre – against snake bites

Saint Peregrine Laziosi – cancer

Saint Peter – involved against criminals

Saint Paulina – Diabetics

Pancras – cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury

Pharaildis – childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – Stress relief and New year blues

Polycarp – earache, dysentery

Potamiana – protectress of rape victims

Q

Saint Quentin – coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.

Quirinus of Neuss – invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout

Quiteria – against rabies

R

Rasso – invoked against stomach pains, especially in children

Regina – against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims

Reinildis – to cure open wounds, against eye diseases

Reverianus - invoked against drought

Roch – Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases

Rita of Cascia – lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse

S

Sebaldus – against cold and cold weather

Scholastica – convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain

Servatius – invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice

Silvia – invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children

Simon of Trent – torture and kidnap victims (no longer venerated)

Sithney – invoked against rabies

Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt – angina

Symphorian – syphilis, eye troubles

T

Theobald of Provins – invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks

Trophimus of Arles – against drought

Tryphon – against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts

U

Ubald – migraine, neuralgia, sick children, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder

Urban of Langres – invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness

Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne – invoked against stiff neck

Ursus of Aosta – faintness, kidney disease, and rheumatism

V

Valentine – fainting, plague, epilepsy

Victor of Marseilles – invoked against lightning

Vitalis of Assisi – diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals

Vitus – chorea/Saint Vitus' Dance, epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping

W

Walter of Pontoise – invoked against stress

Wilgefortis – people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.

William Firmatus – against headache

Willibrord – convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics

Winnoc – fever, whooping cough

Wulfram of Sens is called upon for protection against the dangers of the sea.