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Monday, March 21, 2011

A Catholic saint for every calling (Part 8 of 13)

More Catholic saints to whom we can send work-related prayers...

Erasmus of Formiae is the patron saint of ammunition workers, sailors, boatmen, mariners, navigators, ordnance workers, watermen and women in labor.  Feastday:  June 2nd.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_of_Formiae

Justin Martyr is the patron saint of orators, speakers, lecturers, apologists and philosophers.  Feastday: June 1st . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr

Botulph of Ikanhoe, also known as Botwulf of Thorney, is the patron saint of agricultural workers, farm workers, sailors and travellers.  Feastday:  June 17thhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botwulf_of_Thorney

George is the patron saint of Boy Scouts, archers, armourers, butchers, equestrians, farmers, field hands, field workers, horsemen, husbandmen, knights, lepers, riders, saddle makers, saddlers, shepherds and soldiers.  Feastday:  April 23rd.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George

Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer, is the patron saint of day laborers, farm workers, farmers, field hands, husbandmen, laborers and ranchers.  Feastday:  May 15th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_the_Laborer

Fra Angelico is the patron saint of artists.  Feastday:  February 18th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico

Notburga is the patron saint of servants, peasants, waiters and waitresses, agricultural workers, farm workers, field hands, husbandmen and servers.  Feastday:  September 14th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notburga

Phocas the Gardener is the patron saint of gardeners, market-gardeners, sailors, agricultural workers, farm workers, farmers, field hands, boatmen, mariners, husbandmen, watermen and sailors.  Feastday:  July 23rd.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Phocas

Sennen is the patron saint of coopers and barrel makers.  Feastday:  July 30th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdon_and_Sennen

Colman is the patron saint of whitewashers.  Feastday:  July 8th.  http://saints.sqpn.com/saintc3g.htm

James the Lesser is the patron saint of apothecaries, fullers, hatmakers, hatters, milliners, pharmacists and druggists.  Feastday:  May 3rd.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James,_son_of_Alphaeus

Raphael the Archangel is the patron saint of blind people, doctors, physicians, apothecaries, druggists, guardian angels, lovers, mentally ill people, nurses, pharmacists, shepherds and shepherdesses, travellers, young people and sick people.  Feastday:  September 29th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_(archangel)

Leonard Murialdo is the patron saint of apprentices.  Feastday:  March 30th.  http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-leonard-murialdo/

Pope Damasus I is the patron saint of archeologists.  Feastday:  December 11th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Damasus_I

Helena is the patron saint of empresses, archeologists, converts and divorced people.  Feastdays:  May 21st (Eastern Church) and August 18th (Western Church).  http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-helena/

Thomas the Apostle is the patron saint of architects, builders, construction workers, geometricians, masons, stone masons, stonecutters, surveyors and theologians.  Feastday:  July 3rd.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle

Secundus of Asti is the patron saint of merchants and bankers.  Feastday: March 29th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secundus_of_Asti

Erhard of Regensburg is the patron saint of bakers, cobblers and shoemakers.  Feastday:  January 8th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_of_Regensburg

Mark the Evangelist is the patron saint of attorneys, barristers, lawyers, notaries, captives, imprisoned people, prisoners, glaziers, stained glass workers and struma patients.  Feastday:  April 25th.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_the_Evangelist

Meingold of Huy is the patron saint of bakers.  Feastday:  February 8thhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meingold_of_Huy

List to be continued…


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