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  2. Agatha of Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Agatha is the patron saint of Catania, Molise, Malta, San Marino, Gallipoli in Apulia, [b] and Zamarramala, a municipality of the Province of Segovia in Spain. She is also the patron saint of breast cancer patients, rape victims, martyrs, wet nurses, bell-founders, and bakers, and is invoked against fire, earthquakes, and eruptions of Mount Etna.

  3. Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers - Wikipedia

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    Patron of immigrants, migrant workers, separated families - Lorenzo Ruiz; Invoked against infertility - Maturinus [14] Female infertility (in Syria) - Abd-al-Masih; Against infestations of bedbugs, rodents and locusts - Tryphon [15] [page needed] Against insanity, mental disorders - Bibiana, Christina the Astonishing

  4. Peregrine Laziosi - Wikipedia

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    Laziosi is considered the patron saint of those suffering from cancer. The National Shrine of Saint Peregrine is located at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica in Chicago, Illinois, as a ministry of the Friar Servants of Mary. [6] There is a St. Peregrine Shrine at The Grotto, at The National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother, in Portland, Oregon. A ...

  5. Chiara Badano - Wikipedia

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    When she was 16, she was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a painful bone cancer. Chiara died from the cancer on October 7, 1990, after a two-year battle with the disease. [1] She was beatified on September 25, 2010, at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome. Her feast day is celebrated on October 29. [2]

  6. List of Catholic saints - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...

  7. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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    Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur [26] Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes, [5] Cuthbert, Cuthman, Dominic of Silos, Drogo of Sebourg, George, Germaine Cousin, Julian the Hospitaller, Raphael the Archangel, Regina, Solange; Shoemakers - Crispin, Gangulphus, Peter the Apostle, Theobald of Provins; Shorthand writers ...

  8. Pope and Argentine President Milei embrace after pontiff ...

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    Pope Francis and Argentine President Javier Milei embraced Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica, as Argentine faith and politics came together during a Mass to canonize the country's first female saint.

  9. Charlene Richard - Wikipedia

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    A 1975 series of articles about Richard in the newspaper of the Lafayette diocese spread the cult and were republished in a booklet, Charlene, A Saint from Southwest Louisiana, in 1979. Testimonials by individuals who believed that they had benefited by prayer to Richard were added and the booklet was again republished in 1988. [1]