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This is a list of patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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K
- Kentigern - against bullies and verbal abuse
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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
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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
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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
- 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 - for protection against the dangers of the sea.
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