Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers

Saints have often been prevailed upon in requests for intercessory prayers to protect against or help combatting a variety of dangers, illnesses, and ailments. This is a list of saints and such ills traditionally associated with them. In shorthand, they are called the patron saints of (people guarding against or grappling with) these various troubles.

A

 * Against abortion, miscarriage - Catherine of Vadstena
 * Alcoholism - Martin of Tours
 * Angina - Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt
 * Arthritis - Alphonsus Liguori
 * Auditory conditions and diseases - Ovidius
 * Earache, dysentery - Polycarp
 * Autism - Thorlak

B

 * Victims of betrayal and of torture - Epipodius
 * Against motorcycle/bicycle accidents - Denise
 * Invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism, and faintness - Urban of Langres
 * Blind and the lame - Abel of Reims
 * The blind - Aloysius Gonzaga
 * Blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes - Leodegar
 * Protectress of blind people - Paraskevi of Rome
 * Protector of sufferers from broken bones and hernias - Mammes
 * Against bullies and verbal abuse - Kentigern

C

 * Cancer - Peregrine Laziosi
 * Breast cancer - Agatha
 * Stomach cancer, youth, people who suffer from shyness - Alfie Lambe
 * Invoked against cattle diseases - Berlinda of Meerbeke
 * Chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions- Bernardino of Siena
 * Invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye - Hemma of Gurk
 * Childbirth, sickness - Juliana of Nicomedia
 * Women in difficult labor - John of Bridlington
 * Difficult pregnancy and safe child birth - Peter and Fevronia of Murom
 * Invoked by pregnant women for safe delivery of children - Silvia
 * Childhood illnesses - Deicolus
 * Childhood diseases; difficult marriages; victims of abuse - Pharaildis
 * Convulsive children; invoked against storms and rain - Scholastica
 * Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases - Roch
 * Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping - Vitus
 * Invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases - Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo
 * Riot, civil disorder - Andrew Corsini
 * Against cold and cold weather - Sebaldus
 * Against colic - Agapitus of Palestrina
 * Invoked against colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labour - Erasmus of Formiae or St Elmo
 * Convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics - Willibrord
 * Coughs, sneezes, and dropsy - Quentin
 * Invoked against cramps, afflictions associated with the nerves and ears - Cornelius
 * Cramp, headache, bearing false witness, perjury - Pancras
 * Involved against criminals - Saint Peter
 * Crohns disease and IBS - Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Santiago

D

 * Deafness - Audoin (Ouen)
 * Dying people, expectant mothers, hesitation, happy death, holy death, interior souls, people in doubt, pioneers, pregnant women, travellers, and fetuses - Joseph
 * Demons, fever - Patroclus of Troyes
 * Diabetics - Paulina
 * Invoked against dropsy, childhood sicknesses, hailstones, the pain of childbirth, and gout - Gotthard of Hildesheim
 * Invoked against drought - Reverianus
 * Against drought - Trophimus of Arles
 * Those in danger of drowning - Hyacinth
 * Drug addiction - Maximilian Kolbe

E

 * Invoked against earthquakes - Emygdius of Ascoli
 * Epidemics, diseases - Four Holy Marshals
 * Invoked against epilepsy and headaches - Gerard of Lunel
 * Epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions - Guy of Anderlecht
 * Invoked against erysipelas, lightning, horse theft, wildfires, and drowning - Castulus –
 * Invoked against evil spirits, leprosy, thunderstorms, bacterial diseases, and bacterial infections - Agrippina of Mineo
 * Sore eyes - Augustine of Hippo
 * Eye disease - Cyriacus
 * Eye and skin conditions; knee pains; invoked against adultery and marital difficulties - Gangulphus
 * Eye problems, eye disease - Harvey

F

 * Fainting, plague, epilepsy - Valentine
 * Against diseases in the feet - Saint Alphonsa
 * Invoked against foot troubles, lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice - Servatius
 * Invoked against fever, rats, and mice, particularly field-mice - Gertrude of Nivelles
 * Fever - Hugh of Cluny
 * Invoked against fever; afflictions associated with the eyes; Dry cough; infertility; panic attacks - Theobald of Provins
 * Invoked against fire, floods and drowning - Florian
 * Invoked against flooding, and for the good success of Caesarean section - Caesarius of Terracina

G

 * Against gallstones, colic - Liborius of Le Mans
 * Invoked against illegal gambling - Cajetan
 * Diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals - Vitalis of Assisi
 * Gout, sore throat, fever, whooping cough - Andrew the Apostle
 * Gout - Apollinaris

H

 * Pathologies of the hands and the feet - Julia of Corsica
 * Against hanging - Coloman
 * Hangovers - Bibiana
 * Against headache - Agathius, Teresa of Ávila, Bibiana, Crescentinus, Denis of Paris, William Firmatus,
 * Heart disease - John of God
 * Haemorrhage, eye complaints - Lucy of Syracuse
 * Against hernias - Conrad of Piacenza
 * The homeless - Benedict Joseph Labre, Nicholas of Trani
 * Sick horses - Hippolytus of Rome

I

 * Patron of immigrants, migrant workers, separated families - Lorenzo Ruiz
 * Invoked against infertility - Maturinus
 * Female infertility (in Syria) - Abd-al-Masih
 * Against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts - Tryphon
 * Against insanity, mental disorders - Bibiana, Christina the Astonishing

K

 * Against kidnapping, illness - Arthelais
 * Kidney disease, and rheumatism - Ursus of Aosta
 * Diseases of the kidneys, invoked against physical defects, back pains, and school-related students' crises - Nonnosus

L

 * Leprosy, HIV and AIDS - Damien of Molokai
 * Against lightning; fear of insects - Gratus of Aosta
 * Invoked against lightning - Victor of Marseilles
 * Lost causes, desperate situations - Jude Thaddaeus
 * Lost causes or impossible cases, marital problems, abuse - Rita of Cascia
 * Missing people and lost things - Anthony of Padua

M

 * Difficult marriage - Olaf
 * Mental illness - Bibiana, Fillan, Hermes, Dymphna
 * Migraine - Aspren, Gereon

N

 * Invoked as a protector from natural disasters, plague, invasion - Leoluca
 * Invoked against stiff neck - Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
 * Neuralgia, sick children, obsessive compulsive disorder - Ubald
 * Nyctophobia - Cannera

P

 * Chronic pain - Pacificus of San Severino
 * Patron saint against pandemics - Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia
 * Invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains - Maximin of Trier
 * Against pirate attack - Albinus of Angers
 * Plague, epilepsy - Adrian of Nicomedia
 * Against plague - Sebastian
 * Plague, epilepsy - Natalia of Nicomedia
 * Bubonic plague, misfortunes - Agricola of Avignon
 * Bubonic plague or the Black Death - Fourteen Holy Helpers
 * Invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout - Quirinus of Neuss
 * Pneumonia - Casimiro Barello Morello
 * Poverty - Macrina the Elder
 * Against poverty, impoverishment, torture victims - Regina
 * Pregnancy - Gerard Majella
 * Invoked against procrastination - Expeditus
 * The souls in purgatory - John Macias

R

 * Rabies - Domninus of Fidenza
 * Rabies - Hubertus
 * Against rabies - Quiteria –
 * Invoked against rabies - Sithney
 * Victims of rape - Clementina Nengapeta
 * Victims of rape, crime victims, invoked against pedophiles - Maria Goretti
 * Rape victims - Potamiana
 * Against venomous reptiles - Abhai
 * Invoked against snakes, and snake bites; also invoked against demonic possession, mental illness, poison, wild beasts - Amabilis of Riom
 * Against snake bites - Peregrine of Auxerre
 * Rheumatism - James the Great
 * Maurus – rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
 * Against rheumatism - Miliau –
 * People ridiculed for their piety, repentance, temptation - Mary Magdalene
 * Politicians, athletes, road safety - Alberto Marvelli

S

 * Invoked against sciatica - Dometius of Persia
 * Those who suffer scoliosis, against animal attacks - Joseph of Anchieta
 * Scrofula - Saint Balbina
 * Scrofula, diseases of the skin - Marculf
 * Against danger at sea, against temptations, sick people, storms at sea, police officers - Michael the Archangel
 * For protection against the dangers of the sea - Wulfram of Sens
 * Against sepsis - John Henry Newman
 * The sick, asthma sufferers, nurses and carers - Bernadette
 * Those who serve the sick - Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
 * Skin disease, Saint Anthony's fire - Anthony
 * Skin diseases, victims of child abuse - Germaine Cousin
 * Sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness - Dymphna
 * Smallpox - Matthias
 * Invoked against stomach pains, especially in children - Rasso
 * Invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning - Eurosia
 * Stress relief and New year blues - Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
 * Invoked against stress - Walter of Pontoise
 * Students, youth - John Berchmans
 * Sudden death - Andrew Avellino
 * Syphilis, eye troubles - Symphorian

T

 * Ailments of the throat - Blaise
 * Throat trouble - Godelina
 * Against thunderstorm, evil spirits, and plague - Deodatus of Nevers
 * Toothache - Apollonia
 * Invoked against toothache - Engelmund of Velsen
 * Toothache - Medard
 * Stenographers, printers, lawyers, epileptics, thieves, torture victims - Genesius of Rome
 * People seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands - Wilgefortis

W

 * Protector of soldiers against the dangers of war; also invoked for fertility - St. Bessus
 * Whooping cough - Winnoc
 * Invoked against wolves and fires - Defendens
 * Invoked to cure wounds - Marciana of Mauretania
 * Curing of wounds - Marciana of Toledo
 * To cure open wounds, against eye diseases - Reinildis

V

 * Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids - Fiacre