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Anne Anthony of Padua
Dominic of Silos Elizabeth Gerard Majella
Joseph Margaret of
Antioch Raymond Nonnatus Silvia of Rome Ulric
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St Thomais is
invoked by those seeking deliverance from sexual impurity. Other saints whose intercession we seek for this purpose are: St John the Much-Suffering (July 18) and St Moses the Hungarian (July 26). Orthodox |
1305 Saint Nicholas
of Tolentino Patron of Holy Souls in Purgatory, and, with
St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church hundreds of miracles |
The Prophet
Nahum, 612 B.C., and St Nahum
of Ochrid (December 23) are invoked for people with mental disorders. |
St Bibiana {Dec
2} represented in her story as having been locked up with mad people
she was widely honoured as a patron of the insane and epileptics. |
304 Jan
23 St. Emerentiana
Martyr of Rome invoked against colic and stomach ache Romæ sanctæ Emerentiánæ, Vírginis et Mártyris; quæ adhuc catechúmena, dum oráret ad sepúlcrum sanctæ Agnétis, cujus fúerat collactánea, a Gentílibus lapidáta est. At Rome, the holy virgin and martyr, St. Emerentiana. Being yet a catechumen, she was stoned to death by the heathens while praying at the tomb of St. Agnes, her foster sister. |
1968 of natural causes Coma
St. Padre Pio Memorial 23 September |
1922 Blessed
Maria
Fortunata Viti: Patronage
against poverty, against temptations, impoverishment, insanity, loss of
parents, mental illness, mentally ill people, Canonization
pending; if you have information relevant to canonization of Blessed Maria,
contact Monastero S. Maria de’Franconi P.zza de’Franconi 3 03029 Veroli
FR, ITALY |
1922 St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin nursing very ill and disturbed children b.1888 |
1917 St. Frances
Xavier Cabrini; Nov 13; founded schools hospitals orphanages Patron
of immigrants; In 1946, Pope Pius XII named her patroness of all emigrants and immigrants. |
1568 Stanislaus
Kostka, SJ (RM); known for
his studious ways, deep religious fervor, mortifications. After recovered from serious illness experienced several visions, he decided to join the Jesuits; experienced ecstasies at Mass. Venerated in Poland. Patron of young people (because of his youth). Invoked against broken limbs, eye troubles, fever, and palpitation. Also when in doubt (Roeder). |
1450 May
15 Blessed
Andrew Abellon, OP (AC)
After his death, Blessed Andrew was buried in the Church of the Magdalen.
His tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage; his help especially was sought
in the cure of fevers (Benedictines, Dominicans, Dorcy). |
1444 St. Bernardine
of Siena was made the patron saint
of advertisers and advertising in 1956 by Pope Pius XII because of
his ability to illuminate the Catholic faith to audiences by the use of simple
language and telling symbols. He is invoked against hoarseness, which he
suffered in his early days of preaching, and is believed to have been cured
by a prayer to the Blessed Virgin (White). He is also the patron of wool-weavers
and invoked against diseases of the chest and lungs (Roeder). Bernardino was made the patron saint of advertisers and advertising in 1956 by Pope Pius XII because of his ability to illuminate the Catholic faith to audiences by the use of simple language and telling symbols. He is invoked against hoarseness, which he suffered in his early days of preaching, and is believed to have been cured by a prayer to the Blessed Virgin (White). He is also the patron of wool-weavers and invoked against diseases of the chest and lungs (Roeder). |
1345 Peregrine
Laziosi received a vision of Our Lady who told him to go to Siena,
Italy, and there to join the Servites healed by Jesus incorrupt fervant
preacher, excellent orator, and gentle confessor Patron of
Cancer Patients |
St. Anthony of Padua
is a saint ever ready to rescue persons from destructive accidents,
such as the over-turning of wagons or carriages, the falling from windows
or roofs of houses, the upsetting of boats, and such like; on any of
these occurrences a person has only to call vehemently and with faith
on St. Anthony in order to be rescued. The hundreds of small pictures we
speak of represent these appealling scenes, with a figure of' St. Anthony
in the sky interposing to save life and limb. On each are inscribed the
letters P. G. R., with the date of the accident;—the letters being an abbreviation
of the words Per Grazzia Ricevuto—for grace or favour received. On visiting
the shrine, we remarked that many are quite recent; one of them depicting
an accident by a railway train.
It is to be remarked
that the article entitled 'St. Anthony and the Pigs,' inserted under
January 17, ought properly to have been placed here, as the patronship of animals belongs truly to St. Anthony
of Padua, most probably in consequence of his
sermon to the fishes.The other chief object of interest in the church is a chapel behind the high altar appropriated as a reliquary. Here, within a splendidly decorated cupboard, as it might be called, are treasured up certain relics of the now long deceased saint. The principal relic is the tongue of Il Santo, which. is contained within an elegant case of silver gilt, as here represented. This with other relics is exhibited once a year, at the great festival on the 13th of June, when Padua holds its grandest holiday. |
1302 Bl. Andrew of Segni Franciscan mystic hermit visited by terrible demons invoked against such creatures. Andrew was a member of a royal family of Anagni, the Contis. He entered the Franciscan Order and became a hermit in the Apennines, Italy. Andrew was visited by terrible demons throughout his life and invoked against such creatures. |
1103 May 24
William Firmatus, Hermit; divine warning against avarice, gave all possessions
to poor spent rest of life on pilgrimages (AC) He is
invoked against headache (Roeder). Saint William was both a canon and a physician at Saint-Venance. Because of a divine warning against avarice, William gave all his possessions to the poor and spent the rest of his life on pilgrimages and as a hermit at Savigny and Mantilly, where he is venerated (Benedictines). In art, Saint William thrusts his arm in a fire. He may also be represented with a raven that shows him the way to the Promised Land. |
1073 St. Dominic of Silos Benedictine abbot defender of the faith many miracles were recorded of Dominic in the course of his work, it is said that there were no diseases known to man not been cured by his prayers |
1022 Bernward of Hildesheim, Nov 20 studied at the cathedral school of Heidelburg and at Mainz, where ordained in 987; patron of architects, goldsmiths, painters, and sculptors; |
1012 St. Guy of Anderlecht; pilgrimage on foot to Rome and Jerusalem; patron of laborers and sacristans, and protector of sheds and stables. He is invoked to calm infantile convulsions |
994 St. Wolfgang Benedictine Bishop and reformer of Regensburg; Oct 31 Patron of carpenters, shepherds, woodsmen. Invoked against gout, hemorrhage, lameness, stomach troubles, and wolves; renowned for his charity aid to the poor, |
869 St Edmund
King and martyr Nov 20 Richard II invoked St. Edmund the Martyr
as patron as to those threatened by the plague |
779 St. Walburga
Abbess of the double monastery at Heidenheim In monastério Heidenhémii, diœcésis Eistetténsis, in Germánia, sanctæ Walbúrgæ Vírginis, quæ fuit fília sancti Richárdi, Anglórum Regis, et soror sancti Willebáldi, Eistetténsis Epíscopi. In the monastery of Heidenheim, in the Eichstadt diocese in Germany, St. Walburga, virgin. She was the daughter of St. Richard, king of England, and sister of St. Willebald, bishop of Eichstadt. St. Walburga, Virgin invoked against coughs, dog bite (rabies), plague, and for good harvests |
782 St. Thomas
of Antioch Syria Hermit saint for relief against pestilence |
720 St. Otilie,
virgin born blind, rejected by Lord Adalric, reared by abesses, baptized
at 12 by Saint
Erhard of Regensburg (Bishop of Bavaria) and immediately gained
her sight. In território Argentoraténsi sanctæ Othíliæ Vírginis; In the territory of Strasbourg, Saint Odilia, (circa 660 - 720; Ottilia, Othilia, Otilie, Adilia, Odile; Virgin and Abbess, patron of the vision, eye disease and eye problems, and opticians) |
686 Erconwald
of London founded Chertsey monastery in Surrey convent Barking
Essex invoked against gout OSB B |
680 St. Ghislain founding abbot of a monastery; his intercession is sought to ward off convulsions from children |
655 Saint Foillan
of Fosses; Oct 31 the patron of children's nurses, dentists, surgeons,
and truss-makers kept up close relations with Saint Gertrude's establishment
at Nivelles OSB Abbot (RM) (also known as Faillan) |
650 May
15 Saint Dymphna
Many miracles have taken place at her shrine on the spot
where buried in Gheel, Belgium Patron of suffering for nervous & mental affictions; Dympna is invoked against insanity, mental illness of all types, asylums for the mentally ill, nurses of the mentally ill, sleepwalking, epilepsy, and demoniac possession (Roeder). A lovely set of nine prayers to Saint Dymphna are worth studying. |
7th v. Gerebernus (also
known as Gereborn, Gerebrand, Genebrard) 7th century. As an aged Irish
priest Gerebernus accompanied Saint Dympna, whom he
had baptized in her infancy, to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom at
Gheel. He is the patron saint of the village of Sonsbeck (Santbeck), Cleves,
in the Rhineland, Germany, where his relics are enshrined, except for his
head, which is in Gheel. Curiously, he was the subject of "holy robbers
of Xanten" who specialized in stealing holy relics, although they were
unable to remove those of Dympna. His intercession is sought against gout
and fever (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Husenbeth).
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470 St. Gratus Bishop Sept 7 and patron saint of Aosta Italy. He promoted evangelization and charity. He is the protector of vineyards and is invoked against dangerous animals, fire, insects, hail, lightning, rain, and storm (Roeder). |
421
Saint Romanus the Wonderworker born in the city of Rosa; Feast
day Nov 27 St Romanus is one of many saints to whom we pray for deliverance from childlessness and barreness. Some of the others are: St Stylianos (November 26), St Hypatius of Rufinus (March 31), Sts Theodore and John (July 12). lived an ascetical life on the outskirts of Antioch, acquiring the gifts of clairvoyance and healing. Through his intercession, the Lord granted many childless women the joy of motherhood. St Romanus was strict in his fasting, and he wore heavy chains beneath his hairshirt. The saint spent many years as a hermit without lighting a fire. Reaching old age, he departed to the Lord in peace. |
368 St. Hilary of Poitiers fixed names of His nature: Patron saint of Snake Bites; (315?-368) a gentle courteous man devoted to writing some of the greatest theology on the Trinity Father Son Holy Spirit; His hymns are the first in the West with a known writer |
4th v. St Catherine is called upon for relief and assistance during a difficult childbirth. |
343. ST NICHOLAS, CALLED “OF BARI”, BISHOP OF MYRA Children,
sailors, fishermen, merchants, the falsely accused, pawnbrokers, prostitutes,
repentant thieves, many cities. |
290 The
Holy Martyr Boniface Dec 19 unharmed by boiling tin & tar relics
glorified by numerous miracles We pray
to St Boniface for deliverance from drunkenness.
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287 St. Quentin
Oct 31 Patron of bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths,
porters, tailors, and surgeons; Invoked against coughs, sneezes, dropsy;
martyred Roman went to Gaul as missionary with St. Lucian of Beauvais Apud Augústam Veromanduórum, in Gállia, sancti Quinctíni, civis Románi et ex órdine Senatório viri, qui sub Maximiáno Imperatóre martyrium passus est; cujus corpus post annos quinquagínta quinque, revelánte Angelo, invéntum est incorrúptum. At Saint Quentin in France, the martyr St. Quentin, a Roman citizen and senator, who suffered under Emperor Maximian. By the revelation of an angel, his body was found incorrupt after a lapse of fifty-five years. |
286 Saints Crispin & Crispinian Oct 25 patrons shoemakers cobblers leatherworkers |
285 Zenobius,
October 30 invoked by those suffering from breast cancer. Bishop of Aegea The Hieromartyr, and his sister Zenobia suffered a martyr's death in Cilicia From childhood they were raised in the holy Christian Faith by their parents, and they led pious and chaste lives. In their mature years, shunning the love of money, they distributed away their inherited wealth giving it to the poor. For his beneficence and holy life the Lord rewarded Zenobius with the gift of healing various maladies. He was also chosen bishop of a Christian community in Cilicia. |
270 St. Gregory
Thaumaturgus Nov 17 (means the wonderworker); miracles; first recorded vision of Our Lady; Patronage against earthquakes, desperate causes, floods, forgotten causes, impossible causes, lost causes; in southern Italy and Sicily, where he is invoked in times of earthquake and, on account of his miracle of stopping the flooding of the River Lycus, against inundations. |
Saint Jude To be said when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help, or for cases almost despaired of. Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered your beloved Master into the hands of his enemies has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless causes, of things almost despaired of. |
3rd v. Carpus, Papylus ( known for his gift of
curing the sick Since his martyrdom,
he has granted healing to all who pray to him with faith.), Agathodorus and Agathonike Martyrs suffered
at Pergamun during the persecution of Decius The governor of the district where the saints lived discovered that Carpus and Papylus did not celebrate the pagan festivals. He ordered that the transgressors be arrested and persuaded to accept the Roman pagan religion. The saints replied that they would never worship false gods. The judge then ordered them to be bound in iron chains and led through the city, and then to be tied to horses and dragged to the nearby city of Sardis. Agathodorus and Agathonike voluntarily followed after Carpus and Papylus. St Agathonike was choked to death with ox sinews and Sts Carpus, Papylus and Agathodorus were beheaded in Sardis. During his life St Papylus was
known for his gift of curing the sick.
Since his martyrdom, he has granted healing to all who pray to him with faith. |
Dympha Sleep
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Brigid of Ireland · Holy Innocents · Nicholas of Tolentino · Philip of Zell · Philomena Babies |
Catherine of Alexandria
· Genesius · Ivo of Kermartin · Mark the Evangelist
· Raymond of Penyafort law lawyers attorneys barristers |
Saint Rita of Cascia: St Joseph: Patron Saint
of Those Selling Housing Convulsive children Guy of Anderlecht, John the Baptist, Scholastica, St Ghislain, |
Erasmus (Elmo), Agapitus, Charles Borromeo, Emerentiana, Liborius Abdominal pains |
Bernadine
of Siena Against
chest problems; lungs; respiratory ailments |
Cornelius, Polycarp
of Smyrna Against
earaches |
Andrew, Apostle, Coloman, Maurus, Gregory the
Great, Killian, Maurice, Gerebernus, Totnan, Apollinaris, Erconwald of
London Against gout; gout sufferers |
1167 Idesbald
of Dunes court of Flanders OSB Cist. Abbot (AC) He
is the patron of sailors and invoked against rheumatism, gout, and fever
(Roeder). |
Bernardine of Siena, Maurus Against hoarseness |
Benedict Against inflammatory diseases |
Benedict, Drogo, Valentine, Margaret of Antioch,
Ursus of Ravenna Against kidney disease |
Madron Against pain; cures from pain; pain relief |
Drogo, Florentius of Strasburg, Osmund Against ruptures |
Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne Against stiff neck |
Bartholomew the Apostle, Cornelius Against twitching |
Adelard Against typhus, against typhoid |
350 St. Matrona (3 of them) She suffered grievously from dysentery, and was supernaturally directed to go to Italy to find a cure, for the relief of which disease she is now invoked |
Charles Borromeo, Job Against ulcers; ulcer sufferers |
Blaise, Winoc Against whooping cough |
Aloysius Gonzaga, Peregrine Laziosi, Therese of Lisieux AIDS patients |
John of God, Martin of Tours, Monica, Urban of Langres, Matthias The Holy Martyr Boniface Alcoholism |
Anthony of Padua, Antony the Abbot Amputees |
Swithbert Angina sufferers |
Pancras of Taormina Jobs |
130 St. Balbina Martyr died for her faith was buried on the Appian Way She is invoked against scrofula |
130 St. Balbina Martyr died
for her faith was buried on the Appian Way She is invoked against scrofula
Romæ sanctæ Balbínæ Vírginis, fíliæ beáti Quiríni Mártyris, quæ, a sancto Alexándro Papa baptizáta, in sancta virginitáte Christum sibi sponsum elégit; et, post devíctum hujus sæculi cursum, sepúlta est via Appia, juxta patrem suum. At Rome, the virgin St. Balbina, daughter of the blessed martyr Quirinus. She was baptized by Pope Alexander, and she chose Christ as her spouse in her virginity. After overcoming the world, she was buried at her father's side on the Appian Way. baptized by Pope St. Alexander. The daughter of Quirinus the martyr (St Quirinus the Jailer), Balbina died for the faith and was buried on the Appian Way. Her relics were later enshrined in St. Balbina's Church on the Aventine. Balbina of Rome V (RM) The laus in the Roman Martyrology says: "At Rome, the birthday of Saint Balbina the Virgin, daughter of blessed Quirinus the martyr; she was baptized by Pope Alexander, and chose Christ as her Spouse in her virginity; after completing the course of this world she was buried on the Appian Way near her father." Later, her relics were enshrined in the church dedicated to her on the Aventine. Modern writers question the veracity of the laus (Attwater2, Benedictines). In art, Saint Balbina is portrayed with a chain in her hand or fetters near her. At times she may be shown
kissing the chains of captives. She is invoked against scrofula (Roeder).
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To be said when problems
arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help, or for cases
almost despaired of. Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered your beloved Master into the hands of his enemies has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless causes, of things almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly add your own request here and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you. Amen. To be said when problems arise or when one seems to be deprived of all visible help, or for cases almost despaired of. Most holy apostle, St. Jude,faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases,of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone.Make use I implore you, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly add your own request here and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude,to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you.Amen. To encourage devotion to St. Jude, acknowledge in writing favors received. St. Jude, glorious Apostle, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the true Church invokes you universally as the Patron of things despaired of; pray for me, that finally I may receive the consolations and the succor of Heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly (here make your request), and that I may bless God with the Elect throughout Eternity. Amen. |
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350
St. Matrona (3 of them) She suffered grievously from dysentery, and
was supernaturally directed to go to Italy to find a cure, for the relief
of which disease she is now invoked Thessalonícæ sanctæ Matrónæ, quæ, cum esset ancílla cujúsdam Judǽæ, et occúlte Christum cóleret, ac furtívis oratiónibus quotídie Ecclésiam frequentáret, a dómina sua est deprehénsa et multiplíciter afflícta, atque novíssime, robústis fústibus usque ad mortem cæsa, in confessióne Christi, incorrúptum Deo spíritum réddidit. At Thessalonica, St. Matrona, servant of a Jewess, who, worshipping Christ secretly, and stealing away daily to pray in the church, was detected by her mistress and subjected to many trials. Being at last beaten to death with large clubs, she gave up her pure soul to God in confessing Christ. ST MATRONA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR THERE are three saints of this name who are commemorated in the Acta Sanctorum on March 15. One only of the three appears in the Roman Martyrology, where she is honoured with the following eulogium: “At Thessalonica, of St Matrona, the servant maid of a certain Jewess, who worshipped Christ by stealth and went daily to the church for secret prayer. She was discovered by her mistress and in many ways tormented until at last she was beaten to death with stout rods and in the confession of Christ rendered up her pure soul to God.” The same account, slightly developed, is found in the Greek synaxaries, and we meet it in the West in the early part of the ninth century with certain additional details describing how the martyr, on two occasions being left overnight bound with thongs to a bench, was found in the morning miraculously released. Of this St Matrona no cultus seems to survive. In Barcelona, however, there is, or was, what purport to be the remains of a virgin of the same name who, though born in that region, was taken to Rome, and there, on account of the services she rendered to the Christians in prison, was arrested and put to death, her body being brought back to her own country. A third St Matrona, who is not a martyr, is honoured on this day in the neighbourhood of Capua. She is said, however, to have been of royal birth and to have come from Portugal. She suffered grievously from dysentery, and was supernaturally directed to go to Italy to find a cure, for the relief of which disease she is now invoked.
See the Acta Sanctorum, March, vol. ii; A. B. C. Dunbar, Dictionary of Saintly Women, vol. ii,
p. 77 Quentin, Les Martyrologes Historiques,
p. 181.
According to the Roman Martyrology, Matrona was the Christian maid of a Jewish mistress in Thessalonica. When her mistress discovered she was Christian, she subjected her to many tribulations; Matrona was later beaten to death at the instigation of her mistress. Another Matrona, a native of Barcelona, Spain was taken to Rome and was executed there for ministering to Christian prisoners. And a third St. Matrona is reputed to have been a Portuguese of royal birth, was supernaturally instructed to go to Italy for a cure of her dysentery, and died there. She is venerated in Capua and is the patroness of those suffering from dysentery. Matrona of Thessalonica VM (RM) Saint Matrona was the servant of a rich Jewess in Thessalonica. She was scourged to death upon the order of her mistress, when it was discovered that she was a Christian. Her acta are rather ambiguous (Benedictines). Matrona von Thessaloniki Orthodoxe Kirche: 27. März Matrona lebte im 3./4. Jahrhundert in Soluneia (Theassaloniki). Sie war Sklavin der Jüdin Pautilla, der Ehefrau eines Offiziers. Pautilla verlangte von ihren Sklaven, zum Judentum überzutreten, aber Matrona blieb Christin und ging heimlich zu den christlichen Gottesdiensten. Pautilla schlug sie deshalb, fesselte sie und sperrte sie in ein enges Verlies. Nachdem Matrona zweimal von den Fesseln befreit das Verlies wieder verlassen konnte, erschlug sie Pautilla und ließ ihren Leichnam über die Stadtmauer werfen. Christen begruben ihren Leichnam und später ließ der Bischof Alexander (nach anderen Berichten Bischof Demetrius) eine Kirche errichten, in der ihre Reliquien aufbewahrt wurden. Es wird von mehreren Wundern berichtet, die sich hier zutrugen. Nach einer anderen Quelle heilte Matrona Pautilla von einer Krankheit. |
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368 St. Hilary (315?-368)
a gentle courteous man devoted to writing some of the greatest theology
on the Trinity
This staunch defender of the divinity of Christ was a gentle and courteous man, devoted to writing some of the greatest theology on the Trinity, and was like his Master in being labeled a “disturber of the peace.” In a very troubled period in the Church, his holiness was lived out in both scholarship and controversy. Raised a pagan, he was converted to Christianity when he met his God of nature in the Scriptures. His wife was still living when he was chosen, against his will, to be the bishop of Poitiers in France. He was soon taken up with battling what became the scourge of the fourth century, Arianism, which denied the divinity of Christ. The heresy spread rapidly. St. Jerome said “The world groaned and marveled to find that it was Arian.” When Emperor Constantius ordered all the bishops of the West to sign a condemnation of Athanasius, the great defender of the faith in the East, Hilary refused and was banished from France to far off Phrygia. Eventually he was called the “Athanasius of the West.” While writing in exile, he was invited by some semi-Arians (hoping for reconciliation) to a council the emperor called to counteract the Council of Nicea. But Hilary predictably defended the Church, and when he sought public debate with the heretical bishop who had exiled him, the Arians, dreading the meeting and its outcome, pleaded with the emperor to send this troublemaker back home. Hilary was welcomed by his people. Comment: Christ said his coming would bring not peace but a sword (see Matthew 10:34). The Gospels offer no support for us if we fantasize about a sunlit holiness that knows no problems. Christ did not escape at the last moment, though he did live happily ever after—after a life of controversy, problems, pain and frustration. Hilary, like all saints, simply had more of the same. 368 St. Hilary
of Poitiers fixed names of His nature: Father Son Holy Spirit His hymns
are the first in the West with a known writer
Patron against snake bites "They didn't know who they were." This is how Hilary summed up the problem with the Arian heretics of the fourth century. Hilary, on the other hand, knew very well who he was -- a child of a loving God who had inherited eternal life through belief in the Son of God. He hadn't been raised as a Christian but he had felt a wonder at the gift of life and a desire to find out the meaning of that gift. He first discarded the approach of many people who around him, who believed the purpose of life was only to satisfy desires. He knew he wasn't a beast grazing in a pasture. The philosophers agreed with him. Human beings should rise above desires and live a life of virtue, they said. But Hilary could see in his own heart that humans were meant for even more than living a good life. If he didn't lead a virtuous life, he would suffer from guilt and be unhappy. His soul seemed to cry out that wasn't enough to justify the enormous gift of life. So Hilary went looking for the giftgiver. He was told many things about the divine -- many that we still hear today: that there were many Gods, that God didn't exist but all creation was the result of random acts of nature, that God existed but didn't really care for his creation, that God was in creatures or images. One look in his own soul told him these images of the divine were wrong. God had to be one because no creation could be as great as God. God had to be concerned with God's creation -- otherwise why create it? At that point, Hilary tells us, he "chanced upon" the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. When he read the verse where God tells Moses "I AM WHO I AM" (Exodus 3:14), Hilary said, "I was frankly amazed at such a clear definition of God, which expressed the incomprehensible knowledge of the divine nature in words most suited to human intelligence." In the Psalms and the Prophets he found descriptions of God's power, concern, and beauty. For example in Psalm 139, "Where shall I go from your spirit?", he found confirmation that God was everywhere and omnipotent. But still he was troubled. He knew the giftgiver now, but what was he, the recipient of the gift? Was he just created for the moment to disappear at death? It only made sense to him that God's purpose in creation should be "that what did not exist began to exist, not that what had begun to exist would cease to exist." Then he found the Gospels and read John's words including "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God..." (John 1:1-2). From John he learned of the Son of God and how Jesus had been sent to bring eternal life to those who believed. Finally his soul was at rest. "No longer did it look upon the life of this body as troublesome or wearisome, but believed it to be what the alphabet is to children... namely, as the patient endurance of the present trials of life in order to gain a blissful eternity." He had found who he was in discovering God and God's Son Jesus Christ. After becoming a Christian, he was elected bishop of Poitiers in what is now France by the laity and clergy. He was already married with one daughter named Apra. Not everyone at that time had
the same idea of who they were. The Arians did not believe in the divinity
of Christ and the Arians had a lot of power including the support of
the emperor Constantius. This resulted in many persecutions. When Hilary
refused to support their condemnation of Saint Athanasius he was exiled
from Poitiers to the East in 356. The Arians couldn't have had a worse
plan -- for themselves.
Hilary really had known very little of the whole Arian controversy before he was banished. Perhaps he supported Athanasius simply because he didn't like their methods. But being exiled from his home and his duties gave him plenty of time to study and write. He learned everything he could about what the Arians said and what the orthodox Christians answered and then he began to write. "Although in exile we shall speak through these books, and the word of God, which cannot be bound, shall move about in freedom." The writings of his that still exist include On the Trinity, a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, and a commentary on the Psalms. He tells us about the Trinity, "For one to attempt to speak of God in terms more precise than he himself has used: -- to undertake such a thing is to embark upon the boundless, to dare the incomprehensible. He fixed the names of His nature: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Whatever is sought over and above this is beyond the meaning of words, beyond the limits of perception, beyond the embrace of understanding." After three years the emperor kicked him back to Poitiers, because, we are told by Sulpicius Severus, the emperor was tired of having to deal with the troublemaker, "a sower of discord an a disturber of the Orient." But no one told Hilary he had to go straight back to his home and so he took a leisurely route through Greece and Italy, preaching against the Arians as he went. In the East he had also heard the hymns used by Arians and orthodox Christians as propaganda. These hymns were not based on Scripture as Western hymns but full of beliefs about God. Back at home, Hilary started writing hymns of propaganda himself to spread the faith. His hymns are the first in the West with a known writer. Some of use may wonder at all the trouble over what may seem only words to us now. But Hilary wasn't not fighting a war of words, but a battle for the eternal life of the souls who might hear the Arians and stop believing in the Son of God, their hope of salvation. The death of Constantius in 361 ended the persecution of the orthodox Christians. Hilary died in 367 or 368 and was proclaimed a doctor of the Church in 1851. In His Footsteps: In Exodus, the Prophets, and the Gospel of John, Hilary found his favorite descriptions of God and God's relationship to us. What verses of Scripture describe God best for you? If you aren't familiar with Scripture, look up the verses that Hilary found. What do they mean to you? Prayer: Saint Hilary of Poitiers, instead of being discouraged by your exile, you used your time to study and write. Help us to bring good out of suffering and isolation in our own lives and see adversity as an opportunity to learn about or share our faith. Amen |
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470 St. Gratus Bishop Sept 7 dangerous animals, fire, insects, hail, lightning, rain, and storm | |||||
470 St. Gratus Bishop
Sept 7 and patron saint of Aosta Italy. He promoted evangelization and
charity. He is the protector
of vineyards and is invoked against dangerous animals, fire, insects,
hail, lightning, rain, and storm (Roeder). Gratus of Aosta B (AC) Saint Gratus, former bishop of Aosta, is now its patron saint (Benedictines). In art, Saint Gratus is depicted as a bishop carrying the head of Saint John the Baptist and a bunch of grapes. There may be lightning flashing near him (Roeder). He is the protector of vineyards and is invoked against dangerous animals, fire, insects, hail, lightning, rain, and storm (Roeder). |
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680
St. Ghislain founding abbot of a monastery; his intercession is sought
to ward off convulsions from children He was a Frank who became a hermit in Hainault and was founding abbot of a monastery there called The Cell (now St. Ghislain) near Mons. He encouraged St. Waldetrudis to found a convent at Castrilocus (Mons) and St. Aldegundus to found a convent at Mauberge. An apophrycal legend has him a native of Attica who became bishop of Athens, resign his See, went to Rome and was sent to Hainault, where he became a hermit. Confessor and anchorite in Belgium; b. in the first half of the seventh century; d. at Saint-Ghislain (Ursidongus), 9 October, c. 680. He was probably of German origin. Ghislain lived in the province of Hainault (Belgium) in the time of St. Amand (d. 679) and Saints Waudru, Aldegonde, and Madelberte. With two unknown disciples he made a clearing in the vicinity of Castrilocus (now Mons, in Hainault), taking up later his abode at a place called Ursidongus, where he built an oratory or chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai, summoned him to the episcopal presence in order to sound the intentions of this almost unknown hermit, but he afterwards accorded him efficient protection. During his visit to Cambrai Ghislain spent some time in the villa of Roisin and received as a gift the estates of Celles and Hornu. He soon entered into relations with St. Waudru, who was induced by him to build a monastery at Castrilocus, his former place of refuge. It is probable that Ghislain influenced the religious vocation of St. Aldegonde, Abbess of Maubeuge, also of St. Madelberte and St.Aldetrude, of whom the first was the sister and the last two the daughters of St. Waudru. One day Aldegonde in her monastery of Maubeuge, had a vision in which, according to her biographer, the death of St. Amand, Bishop of Tongres, was revealed to her. Ghislain visited the saint in her villa of Mairieu, near Mabeuge, and explained to her that the vision was an announcement of her own approaching death. The intercourse between Ghislain and Aldegonde brought about a perfect understanding between Maubeuge and the monastery founded at Ursidongus under Ghislain's direction. St. Waudru rewarded her counsellor with a portion of the villa of Frameries and of the oratory of St Quentin, comprised within the boundaries of the villa of Quaregnon. Ghislain died at Ursidongus, and the monastery which he had founded took his name. The relics of the saint were first disinterred c. 929. They were transferred to Grandlieu, near Quaregnon, about the end of the tenth century or the begining of the eleventh, and in 1025 Gerard I, Bishop of Cambrai, removed them to Cateau-Cambresis. They were visited several times in the course of the Middle Ages by the Bishops of Cambrai. In 1647 they were removed to St Ghislain of which place our saint is patron. His feast is celebrated 9 October and his intercession is sought to ward off convulsions from children. In iconography he is frequently represented with a bear or bear's cub beside him. This is an allusion to the popular legend which relates that a bear, pursued in the chase by King Dagobert, sought refuge with Ghislain and later showed him the place where he should establish a monastery. Moreover, the site of the saint's cella was called Ursidongus, "bear's den". 680 St Gislenus, Or Ghislain, Abbot Having led for some time an eremitical life in a forest in Hainault this Frankish saint founded there a monastery in honour of SS. Peter and Paul. He governed it with great sanctity and prudence; the abbey was long known as The Cell (now Saint-Ghislain, near Mons), but the original name of the place was Ursidongus, that is, “the bear’s den”, whence arose the legend that a bear, hunted by King Dagobert I, took refuge with Gislenus and showed him the site of his future monastery. St Gislenus is said to have had great influence on St Vincent Madelgarius and his wife St Waldetrudis and their family; with his encouragement Waldetrudis founded the convent at Castrilocus (Mons), where Gislenus had had his first hermitage, and St Aldegundis the convent of Maubeuge. With the last-named he was united in a very close friendship, and when they were both too old conveniently to make the journey to one another’s monasteries, they built an oratory in between and would there meet to converse of God and matters connected with their respective communities. The Roman Martyrology says that St Gislenus resigned a bishopric before becoming a hermit. This refers to the quite apocryphal legend that he was born in Attica, became a monk there, and was raised to the see of Athens. In consequence of a vision he resigned this office, went on pilgrimage to Rome with other Greek monks, and while there, received divine direction to go on into Hainault, which he did with two companions. There he met St Amandus, and was encouraged by him to settle by the river Haine. The legend also, explains why the eldest sons of a certain family at Roisin were all called Baldericus (Baudry). When the mysterious Greek stranger was on his way to give an account of himself to the bishop St Aubert at Cambrai, he received hospitality at Roisin, and during the night his host’s wife was overtaken by a difficult labour. The husband appealed for his prayers to Gislenus, who handed him his belt, saying, “Put this round your wife like a baldric (baudrei), and she will safely give birth to a son”. The saint’s promise was verified, and the grateful parents gave him two estates for the endowment of his monastery. There is no
very satisfactory account of the career of St Gislenus. An anonymous
life is printed by Mabillon and the Bollandists; and another, by Rainerus,
a monk of Saint Ghislain in the eleventh century, has been edited by Poncelet in the Analecta Bollandiana,
vol. v (1857), pp. 212—239, with a third document, pp. 257—290.
See also Van der Essen, Etude critique sur les saints ,merovingiens,
pp. 249—260; U. Berlière, Monasticon Beige,
vol. i, pp. 24.4—246; and Berlière in Revue
liturgique et, monastique, vol. xiv (1929), pp. 438 seq.
The story, as told in the early biographies, is very improbable.
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782 St. Thomas
of Antioch Syria Hermit saint for relief against pestilence Antiochíæ sancti Thomæ Mónachi, quem Antiochéni, ob sedátam ejus précibus pestem, solemnitáte ánnua coluérunt. At Antioch, St. Thomas, a monk honoured with an annual solemnity by the people of Antioch, for bringing the end of a plague by his prayers. Thomas spent most of his life as a hermit in the area near Antioch (modern Syria). According to tradition, he is a special saint for relief against pestilence. |
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1012
St. Guy of Anderlecht; pilgrimage on foot to Rome and Jerusalem; patron
of laborers and sacristans, and protector of sheds and stables.
He is invoked to calm infantile convulsions Born near Brabant; died at Brussels, Belgium; c. 950-1012; feast day formerly on September 2. Saint Guy, commonly called The Poor Man of Anderlecht, was the son of poor, but pious, parents who were richly blessed by their faith. They were not able to give their son a formal education, but were diligent in instructing him in the faith. They taught him the counsels of Saint Augustine that Christians should be detached from earthly possessions. Guy prayed throughout his life to be preserved from greed, to love poverty, and to bear all its hardships with joy. This detachment from the need to own, endowed the saint with love for his neighbor; he gladly fed the poor while he himself fasted and divided the little he had among them. Legend says that when Guy grew to manhood, he was a farm laborer, who prayed as he plowed the fields, sometimes replaced at the plow by his guardian angel. He then wandered for a time until he arrived at the church of Our Lady at Laeken, near Brussels, whose priest was struck with his piety and hired Guy as sacristan. Guy gladly accepted the offer; and the cleanliness and good order that appeared in everything under his direction struck all who entered the church. Like many other simple folk of every age, Guy was enticed by a merchant of Brussels to invest his small savings in a commercial venture, with the unusual motive of having more at his disposal to relieve the poor and leisure for contemplation. Unfortunately, the ship carrying their goods was lost leaving the harbor, and Guy, who had resigned his position as sacristan and been replaced, was left destitute. He recognized his mistake in following his own ideas and in forsaking secure and humble employment to embark, though with good intention, on the affairs of the world, and he blamed himself for the loss. In reparation, Guy made a pilgrimage on foot to Rome and Jerusalem, wandering from shrine to shrine for seven years. Finally, he made his way back to Belgium and Anderlecht, where he was received almost immediately into the public hospital of Anderlecht and he died from exhaustion and illness. His cultus did not arise immediately. In fact, his grave was forgotten until a horse uncovered it. The horse's owner hired two local boys to enclose the site in a high, solid hedge to ensure that others would not unwittingly trample on Guy's grave. The boys ridiculed the benefactor's act of reverence for the dead and were seized by strange stomach aches. Writhing in agony, they died. For some reason, this moved the local people to make pilgrimages to his grave and to build an oratory over it. In 1076, a church was constructed and Guy's relics translated therein. Guy's sanctity was confirmed almost immediately thereafter by miracles wrought at his intercession. On June 24, 1112, a bishop acknowledged the relics with a grand ceremony and Guy's vita was composed. In 1595, the relics were enshrined in a new reliquary. During the 17th century, they were moved from place to place to escape pillage during wars. It seems that they were captured by the Protestants in the 18th century, although there is a "last acknowledgement of the venerable treasure" that occurred on September 11, 1851. Over time his cultus increased locally, until now much folklore has accrued around his name and shrine, particularly associated with horses. Cabdrivers of Brabant lead an annual pilgrimage to Anderlecht until the beginning of World War I in 1914. They and their horses headed the procession followed by farmers, grooms, and stable boys leading their animals to be blessed. The description of the village fair that ended the religious procession sounds like fun. There would be various games, music, and feasting, followed by a competition to ride the carthorses bareback. The winner entered the church on bareback to receive a hat made of roses from the parish pastor (Attwater, Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Walsh). In art, Saint Guy is depicted as a pilgrim with hat, staff, rosary, and ox at his feet. He might also be shown as a peasant or a pilgrim with a book (Roeder). Guy is venerated at Anderlecht, where he is considered the patron of laborers and sacristans, and protector of sheds and stables. He is invoked to calm infantile convulsions (Encyclopedia). |
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1167 Idesbald of
Dunes court of Flanders OSB Cist. Abbot (AC) He is the
patron of sailors and invoked against rheumatism, gout, and fever (Roeder).
Saint Idesbald is
portrayed in art as a Cistercian abbot holding a sailing ship in his hand
(Roeder). He is the patron of sailors and invoked against rheumatism,
gout, and fever (Roeder).1167 ST IDESBALD, ABBOT incorrupt 450 years after his death, now lies at Bruges. THE celebrated abbey of our Lady of the Dunes arose from a small settlement formed in 1107 by a hermit called Ligerius on the sand-hills between Dunkirk and Nieuport. The monks followed the Savigny reform until 1137, when the monastery, which had been transferred to a neighbouring spot, became affiliated to the Cistercians. Thither there came one day from Fumes a canon of the church of St Walburga, Idesbald by name, asking to be given the monastic habit. He was a man no longer young, and with aristocratic connections, but it was not long before he won the affectionate esteem of the whole abbey by his meekness, his wisdom and his integrity. The post of cantor, which he held, was dear to him, for the Divine Office was his passion: he would become so much absorbed in it as to be oblivious to all things else. He eventually became abbot, and the monastery prospered greatly under his rule, his prestige being so great that outsiders eagerly assisted him in carrying out his schemes; and privileges were granted to the abbey by Pope Alexander III. When St Idesbald died, his brethren, in deference to his great sanctity, departed from the custom of the order and laid him in a coffin which they buried in their church. His body, which was found to be incorrupt 450 years after his death, now lies at Bruges. There seems
to be no early life of St Idesbald, but an account of him is given in
the Acta Sanctorum,
April, vol. ii. There is a good book in Flemish by J. De Cuyper, Idesbald van der Gracht (1946).
Born in Flanders, 1100; cultus confirmed in 1894.
Saint Idesbald spent his youth at the court of Flanders. In 1135, he
was made a canon of Furnes, but resigned his office to become a Cistercian
at Our Lady of the Dunes between Dunkirk and Nieuport. He governed the
foundation as its third abbot for 12 years (Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson). |
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Apoplexy (Strokes) Andrew Avellino, Wolfgang
Appendicitis Erasmus (Elmo) Arm pain; pain in the arms Amalburga Arthritis; rheumatism Alphonsus de Liguori, Colman, James the Greater, Killian, Servatus, Totnan Bacterial disease and infection Agrippina Blind people Raphael the Archangel, Lucy, Catald, Dunstan, Lawrence the Illuminator, Leodegarius, Lutgardis, Odilia, Parasceva, Thomas (Apostle), Cosmas and Damian Bodily ills Our Lady of Lourdes, John Bosco, John the Apostle Breast cancer Agatha, Aldegundis, Giles, Peregrine Laziosi Breast disease, invoked against Agatha Broken bones Drogo, Stanislaus Kostka Burns John the Apostle Cancer victims/patients Peregrine Laziosi Childhood diseases Aldegundis, Pharaildis Childhood intestinal diseases Erasmus (Elmo) Children, sick Beuno, Clement I, Hugh of Lincoln, Ubald Baldassini Cholera Roch Colic Erasmus (Elmo) Contagious diseases Robert Bellarmine, Sebastian Convulsions John the Baptist, Willibrord Convulsive children Guy of Anderlecht, John the Baptist, Scholastica, St Ghislain, Coughs; against Blaise, Quentin, Walburga Deafness; Deaf people Cadoc of Llancarvan, Drogo, Francis de Sales, Meriadoc, Ouen Depression; Insanity; Madness Benedict Joseph Labre, Bibiana, Christina the Astonishing, Drogo, Dymphna, Eustochium of Padua, Fillan, Giles, Job, Margaret of Cortona, Maria Fortunata Viti, Medard, Michelina, Osmund, Raphaela, Romanus of Condat, Veran Desperate situations Jude, Gregory the Wonderworker, Rita of Cascia, Eustace Desperate, forgotten, impossible/lost causes or situations Jude Thaddeus, Rita of Cascia, Philomena, Gregory Thaumaturgus Disabled; handicapped; physically challenged people Giles, Alphais, Angela Merici, Gerard of Aurillac, Germaine Cousin, Henry II, Lutgardis, Margaret of Castello, Seraphina, Servatus, Servulus Diseases of the eye Raphael the Archangel, Lucy Diseases, contagious Roch, Sebastian Diseases, nervous Dymphna Dizziness; vertigo Ulric Drug addiction Maximillian Kolbe Dying people, invoked by Abel, John of God, Joseph, Catherine of Alexandria, James the Lesser the Apostle, Margaret (or Marina) of Antioch, Michael the Archangel, Benedict, Nicholas of Tolentino, Barbara Dysentery Lucy of Syracuse, Polycarp Eczema; skin rashes; skin diseases Antony the Abbot, George, Marculf, Peregrine Laziosi, Roch Epilepsy Dymphna, Vitus, Willibrord, Alban of Mainz, Antony the Abbot, Apollinaris, Balthasar, Bibiana, Catald, Christopher, Cornelius, Genesius, Gerard of Lunel, Giles, Guy of Anderlecht, John Chrysostom, John the Baptist, Valentine Eye disorders; eye diseases; eye problems; sore eyes Sts. Herve, Clare, Lucy, Raphael the Archangel, Aloysius Gonzaga, Augustine of Hippo, Cyriacus, Erhard of Regensburg, Leodegarius, Odilia, Symphorian of Autun Fainting; faintness Urban of Langres, Ursus of Ravenna, Valentine Fever Genevieve, Adalard, Amalberga, Andrew Abellon, Antoninus of Florence, Benedict, Castorus, Cornelius, Dominic of sora, Domitian of Huy, Gerebernus, Gertrude of Nivelles, Hugh of Cluny, Jodocus, Liborius, Mary of Oignies, Nicostratus, Peterthe Apostle, Petronilla, Raymond Nonnatus, Severus of Avranches, Sigismund, Simpronian, Theobald Roggeri, Ulric, Winnoc Fistula Fiacre Foot problems Peter the Apostle, Servatus Gall stones Benedict, Drogo, Liborius, Florentius of Strasburg Glandular disorders Cadoc of Llancarvan Goitres Blaise Haemorrhoid sufferers Fiacre Head injuries John Licci Headaches Teresa of Avila, Acacius, Anastasius the Persian, Bibiana, Dionysius the Aeropagite, Gerard of Lunel, Gereon, Pancras, Stephen the Martyr, William Firmatus, Denis the Bishop of Paris Health Infant Jesus of Prague Heart patients John of God Hemorrhage Lucy Hernia Alban of Mainz, Drogo, Catald, Conrad of Piacenza, Cosmas and Damian, Gummarus Hernia sufferers Cathal Herpes George Hopeless (or desperate) cases Jude, Rita of Cascia, Gregory the Wonderworker Hydrophobia, or rabies Hubert, Ubald, Dominic de Silos, Guy of Anderlecht, Otto of Bamberg, Sithney, Walburga Insanity Dymphna Intestinal/Stomach Disease Brice, Charles Borromeo, Emerentiana, Erasmus (Elmo), Timothy, Wolfgang Invalids Roch Jaundice Odilo Kidney stones; gravel Alban of Mainz, Liborius Knee diseases or trouble Roch Lame, the Giles Leg disease or trouble Servatus Lepers; leprosy George, Giles, Lazarus, Vincent de Paul Lumbago Lawrence Lungs; chest; respiratory problems Bernardine of Siena Mentally ill Dymphna Migraine; migraine sufferers Gereon, Severus of Avranches, Ubald Baldassini Mute people, muteness, dumbness Drogo Nervous diseases Vitus, Dymphna, Bartholomew the Apostle Neuralgia Ubald Baldassini Neurological disorders Dymphna, Bartholomew the Apostle Open sores Peregrine Laziosi Paralysis, paralysed people Osmund, Catald, Wolfgang Physically Disabled Giles Plague Gregory the Great, Roch, Adrian of Micomedia, Catald, Colman of Stockerau, Cuthbert, Edmund of East Anglia, Erhard of Regensburg, Francis of Paola, Francis Xavier, George, Genevieve, Macarius of Antioch, Valentine, Walburga, Sebastian Polio Margaret Mary Alacoque Prolonged Suffering Lydwina of Schiedam Rabies Hubert, Ubald Rabies, hydrophobia, mad dogs Dominic of Silos, Guy of Anderlecht, Hubert of Liege Reformed alcoholics Martin of Tours, Matthias Rheumatoid sufferers; rheumatism, arthritis Coloman, James the Greater, Killian, Servatus, Totnan Saint Vitus's dance; rheumatic chorea Vitus Sickness; sick people
John of God, Camillus de Lellis, Alphais, Alphonsa
of India, Angela Merici, Angela Truszkowska, Arthelais, Bathild, Bernadetteof
Lourdes, Catherine del Ricci, Catherine of Siena, Drogo, Edel Quinn,
Elizabeth of the Trinity, Gerard of Villamagna, Germaine Cousin, Gorgonia,
Hugh of Lincoln, Isabella of France, Jacinta Marto, Julia Billiart, Julia
Falconieri, Juliana of Nicomedia, Louis IX, Louise de Marillac, Lydwina
of Schiedam, Maria Bagnesi, Maria Gabriella, Maria Mazzarello, Marie Rose
Durocher, Mary Ann de Paredes, Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, Our Lady of Lourdes,
Michael the Archangel, Paula Frassinetti, Peregrine Laziosi, Philomena,
Raphael, Romula, Syncletica, Teresa of Avila, Rafka Al-Rayes, Teresa Valse
Pantellini, Terese of the Andes, Therese of Lisieux Smallpox Matthias Spasms John the Baptist Stammering children Notkar Balbulus Stomach disorders Timothy, Erasmus (Elmo) Strokes Andrew Avellino Syphilis Fiacre, George, Symphorian of Autun Throat ailments Blaise, Ludmila, Andrew the Apostle, Etheldreda, Godelieve, Ignatius of Antioch, Lucy, Swithbert Toothache Apollonia Tuberculosis, consumption Pantaleon, Therese of Lisieux Venereal disease Fiacre wounds Aldegundis, Rita of Cascia |