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

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    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 ...

  3. Dymphna - Wikipedia

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    Dymphna is the patron saint of mental illness. [5] The US National Shrine of St. Dymphna is located inside St. Mary's Catholic Church in Massillon, Ohio. [6] The shrine was destroyed by a fire in 2015, but reopened in December 2016 and is still open to pilgrims and visitors. St.

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

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    Sailors - Botolph, Brendan the Navigator, [5] Elizabeth Seton, Erasmus of Formiae, [5] Nicholas of Myra, Peter the Apostle, Phocas the Gardener. Sailors in Brittany - Maturinus; French Canadian voyagers and sailors - Andrew the Apostle; Salespeople - Lucy; Scholars - Brigid of Ireland; School children - Isidore of Seville, Madeleine Sophie Barat

  5. Who are patron saints and why do Catholics venerate them?

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    On Oct. 10, 2020, Carlo Acutis, a computer enthusiast, was beatified and given the title of “Blessed,” in the town of Assisi in Italy. Already, Catholics are calling this 15-year-old video ...

  6. Catholic Church and health care - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of patron saints for physicians, the most important of whom are Saint Luke the Evangelist, the physician and disciple of Christ; Saints Cosmas and Damian, 3rd-century physicians from Syria; and Saint Pantaleon, a 4th-century physician from Nicomedia. Archangel Raphael is also considered a patron saint of physicians. [80]

  7. Column One: St. Dymphna, patron saint of mental health, is ...

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  8. Vitalis of Assisi - Wikipedia

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    Vitalis then spent the rest of his life in the hermitage of Santa Maria di Viole, near Assisi, in utter poverty.His one possession was an old container that he used to drink water from a nearby spring.

  9. Camillus de Lellis - Wikipedia

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    The town Saint-Camille, Quebec and the parish Saint-Camille-de-Lellis, Quebec; The town and village of Camillus, New York; Saint Camillus Academy, former Catholic school in Kentucky, USA; St Camille Association, providing residential care for people in West Africa suffering from mental illness; St. Camillus Centre in Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho