Patron Saints BY MONTH - for confirmation names - The Roman ...

January
April
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St. Basil the Great & St. Gregory Nazianzen
St. Abel
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, patron of widows & single
parents
St. John Neumann
St. Raymond of Penyafort, patron of lawyers
St. Hilary, protector against snakes
St. Anthony, patron of butchers, grave-diggers and
graveyards, domestic animals, skin diseases
St. Fabian and St. Sebastian, patron of athletes, soldiers,
police, physicians
St. Agnes, patron of young girls
St. Vincent, patron of winegrowers, vinegar-makers
St. Marianne Cope
St. Francis de Sales, patron of journalists, editors,
writers, the deaf
St. Timothy, patron of people w/stomach ailments and
St. Titus
St. Angela Merici
St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of Catholic schools, students,
colleges, philosophers, theologians
St. John Bosco, patron of editors, young people
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St. Francis of Paola, patron of seafarers
St. Isidore of Seville
St. Vincent Ferrer, patron of builders
St. John Baptist de la Salle, patron of teachers
St. Julie Billiart, patron of catechists
St. Marguerite d’Youville
St. Stanislaus, patron of Poland
St. Martin I
St. Bernadette, patron of people with asthma
St. Anselm
St. George, patron of England, Portugal, Lithuania,
Boy Scouts, farmers
St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, patron of lawyers
St. Mark
St. Peter Chanel, patron of Oceania
St. Catherine of Siena, patron of Italy, fire prevention,
nurses
St. Pius V
May
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14
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February
St. Brigid of Ireland, patron of nuns
St. Blasé, patron of protection against throat diseases,
wild animals; patron of woolcombers, wax makers
St. Ansgar, patron of France, Denmark, Sweden, Germany,
Iceland
St. Agatha, patron of Sicily, nurses, people with breast
cancer, miners, jewelers, bell founders, Alpine guides;
protector against fires, earthquakes, famine, thunderstorms,
volcanoes
St. Paul Miki & Companions
St. Jerome Emiliani, patron of orphans, abandoned
children
St. Scholastica, patron of children with convulsions
St. Cyril and St. Methodius, patrons of Europe, Yugoslavia,
Bohemia, Moravia
St. Valentine
St. Peter Damian
St. Polycarp
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St. Anthanasius
St. Philip and St. James, patron saints of Uruguay
St. James the Less, patron of druggists, the dying
St. Damien of Molokai
St. Nereus and St. Achilleus
St. Pancras (Pancratius)
St. Agnes of Poitiers
St. Julian of Norwich
St. Matthias, patron of tailors, alcoholics
St. Isidore the Farmer, patron of farmers, farm laborers
St. Brendan
St. John I
St. Bernardine of Siena, patron of advertisers, protector
from hoarseness
St. Bede the Venerable
St. Gregory VII
St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
St. Philip Neri
St. Augustine of Canterbury
St. Joan of Arc, patron of France, members of military
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March
St. David
St. Katharine Drexel, patron of philanthropists
St. Casimir, patron of Poland, Lithuania, Russia
St. Perpetua & St. Felicity, people with infertility
St. John of God, patron of hospitals, the sick, nurses,
booksellers, printers, those with hear t ailments
St. Frances of Rome, patron of widows, motorists
St. Dominic Savio, patron of young boys
St. Louise de Marillac, patron of social workers
St. Abraham
St. Patrick, patron of Ireland, Nigeria
St. Cyril of Jerusalem
St. Joseph, patron of the Church, a happy death, fathers,
carpenters, bursars, artisans, manual workers,
prayer and interior life, house hunting, the poor,
those in authority, priests, religious, travelers, devotion
to Mary, Austria, Mexico, Canada, Bohemia, Chinese
missions, Belgium, Peru, South Vietnam
St. Turibius de Mogrovejo, patron of Latin American
bishops
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June
St. Justin, patron of philosophers
St. Marcellinus & St. Peter
St. Charles Lwanga & Companions, patron of African Catholic
Action, youth
St. Boniface, patron of England
St. Norbert
St. Ephrem of Syria
St. Barnabas, patron of Cyprus
St. Anthony of Padua, patron of lost items, childless
women, the poor, harvests, travelers, horses & donkeys,
Portugal
St. Romuald
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, patron of Christian youth, students
in Jesuit colleges
St. Paulinus of Nola
St. John Fisher & Thomas More, patron of lawyers
St. Cyril of Alexandria
St. Irenaeus
St. Peter, patron of fisherman & St. Paul, patron of
the lay apostolate, the Cursillo movement, Catholic
Action, Malta, Greece

July
September
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St. Thomas, patron of builders, architects, surveyors,
the blind, India, Pakistan, the East Indies
St. Elizabeth of Portugal
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria
St. Maria Goretti, patron of youth, teenage girls, people
who have been abused
St. Benedict, patron of Europe, farm workers, Italian
engineers and architects
St. Veronica, patron of photographers
St. Henry
St. Kateri Tekakwitha, patron of environmentalists
St. Camillus de Lellis, patron of people with AIDS
St. Bonaventure
St. Swithun
St. Lawrence of Brindisi
St. Mary Magdalene, patron of perfumers
St. Bridget of Sweden, patron of scholars, dairy workers
St. Boris, patron of Moscow & St. Gleb
St. James, patron of laborers, people with arthritis,
Spain, Guatemala, Nicaragua
St. Joachim & St. Ann, patrons of grandparents; Ann:
patron of housewives, childless women, miners, Canada
St. Martha, patron of housewives, nutritionists,
cooks, servants, waiters & waitresses
St. Peter Chrysologus
St. Ignatius of Loyola, patron of retreats, soldiers
August
St. Alphonsus Liguori, patron of confessors, theologians,
vocations
The Seven Holy Maccabees & their mother St. Salome
St. Eusebius of Vercelli
St. John Mary Vianney, patron of parish priests
St. Sixtus II & Companions
St. Cajetan
St. Dominic, patron of astronomers, Dominican Rep.
St. Edith Stein, patron of philosophers
St. Lawrence, patron of Rome, cooks, the poor
St. Clare, patron of television
St. Pontian & St. Hippolytus
St. Radegunda
St. Maximilian Kolbe, patron of people w/drug addition
St. Stephen of Hungary, patron of Hungary, builders
St. Jane Frances de Chantal, patron of people who
grieve
St. Helen, patron of archeologists
St. John Eudes
St. Sarah
St. Bernard, patron of beekeepers, candlemakers,
Gibraltar
St. Pius X, patron for sick people on the way to shrines
St. Rose of Lima, patron of florists, gardeners, Peru,
Central & So. America, the Philippines, India
St. Bartholomew
St. Louis of France, patron of French soldiers, builders,
sculptors, button makers, barbers
St. Joseph Calasanz, patron of all Christian schools
St. Monica, patron of mothers, parents of troubled
children
St. Augustine, patron of theologians
St. Jacob
St. John the Baptist, patron of road workers
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St. Ruth
St. Gregory the Great, patron of teachers, scholars,
music, singers
St. Moses
Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
St. Mary
St. Peter Claver, patron of missionary work among
black people, Colombia
St. John Chrysostom, patron of preachers & public
speakers, Constantinople
St. Cornelius & St. Cyprian, patron of North Africa,
Algeria
St. Robert Bellarmine, patron of catechists, catechumens
St. Hildegard of Bingen
St. Januarius, patron of Naples, blood banks, those
in danger of volcanoes
St. Andrew Kim Taegon, St. Paul Chong Hasang,
and Companions
St. Matthew, patron of bankers, accountants, taxgatherers,
security guards
St. Cleopas and companion
St. Cosmas and St. Damian, patrons of physicians,
surgeons, pharmacists, druggists, barbers, hairdressers,
the blind
St. Vincent de Paul, patron of works of charity, hospitals,
elderly people, prisoners, Madagascar
St. Wenceslaus, patron of Bohemia, Moravia, brewers
St. Lawrence Ruiz & Companions
Archangels: St. Michael, the Church, policemen,
grocers, mariners, bankers, radiologists, the sick,
the dying, the possessed, England, Germany, Papua
New Guinea, Solomon Islands; St. Gabriel, postal
services, telephone & telegraph workers, television
workers; & St. Raphael, travelers, young people
leaving home, the blind, nurses, physicians, lovers
St. Jerome, patron of Scripture scholars, librarians,
students
October
St. Therese of Child Jesus/of Lisieux/of the Little Flower,
foreign missions, France, florists, gardeners, airplane pilots
St. Francis of Assisi, patron of Italy, Italian merchants,
ecologists, ornithologists
St. Bruno, patron of the possessed
St. Mechthild of Magdeburg
St. Denis and Companions, patron of Paris, France,
those with headaches, the possessed
St. John Leonardi
St. Callistus I
St. Teresa of Jesus/of Avila, patron of Spain, those
with headaches
St. Theodora
St. Hedwig, patron of Silesia
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, patron of people with
heart disease
St. Ignatius of Antioch
St. Luke, patron of artists, painters, doctors, sculptors,
glass-workers, butchers
St. Isaac Jogues, St. John de Brebeuf, and Companions,
patrons of Canada
St. Rene Goupil, patron of anesthesiologists
St. Paul of the Cross
St. Ursula and companions
St. John of Capistrano, patron of jurists, military
chaplains
St. Anthony Mary Claret, patron of weavers, savings
banks
St. Simon and St. Jude, patron of desperate situations,
hospitals

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November
St. Martin de Porres, patron of social justice, public
education, hairdressers
St. Malachy O’More
St. Charles Borromeo, patron of catechists, catechumens,
seminaries
St. Elizabeth & St. Zechariah
St. Leo the Great
St. Martin of Tours, patron of France, soldiers, horses
and horse-riders, beggars, geese, winegrowers
St. Josaphat
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, patron of immigrants, hospital
administrators, Italy
St. Albert the Great, patron of scientists, students,
philosophers
St. Agnes of Assisi
St. Margaret of Scotland, patron of Scotland
St. Gertrude the Great, patron of the West Indies
St. Elizabeth of Hungary, patron of Catholic charities,
the Franciscan Third Order, bakers
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
St. Cecilia, patron of music, musicians, poets
St. Clement I, patron of marble-workers, mariners,
stonecutters
St. Columban, patron of Ireland
St. Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions
St. Andrew, patron of Russia, Scotland, the Greek
Church, fishermen, fish dealers
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December
St. Francis Xavier, patron of the missions, Australia,
India, Pakistan
St. John Damascus
St. Barbara, patron of a happy death, architects
St. Nicholas, patron of Greece, Sicily, Russia, bakers,
brides, children, merchants, travelers, sailors
St. Ambrose, patron of learning, beekeepers, the
French army commissariat
St. Juan Diego, patron of the disenfranchised
St. Damasus I, patron of archeologists
St. Lucy, patron of those with eye trouble, writers,
Syracuse, Sicily
St. John of the Cross, patron of diocesan priests, poets
St. Esther
St. Peter Canisius
St. John of Kanty, patron of Poland, Lithuania
St. Adam & St. Eve
St. Stephen, patron of deacons, bricklayers, stonemasons
St. John the Evangelist, patron of Turkey, protection
against poison
St. Thomas Becket
St. David
St. Sylvester I