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  2. Zdislava Berka - Wikipedia

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    [1] [6] [9] She is the patron saint of Bohemia, of difficult marriages, and of those who are ridiculed for their piety. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Her feast day is 1 January, [ 9 ] however as of 2019, the Order of Preachers celebrates her feast day on 4 January instead.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Alphonsus Liguori - Wikipedia

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    Alphonsus Maria de Liguori CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.

  5. 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.

  6. Bernard of Menthon - Wikipedia

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    Although venerated from the 11th century in such places of northern Italy as Aosta, Novara and Brescia, Bernard was not formally recognized as a saint until his canonization by Pope Innocent XI in 1681. His feast is celebrated on 28 May [10] or June 15 (Roman Martyrology). [11] Pope Pius XI confirmed Bernard as the patron saint of the Alps in ...

  7. Patron saint - Wikipedia

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    Honoratus of Amiens is the patron saint of bakers and confectioners. A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. [1] [2]

  8. Euphrosyne of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    A dying Euphrosyne reveals herself to her father, miniature from the Menologion of Basil II. Euphrosyne's father Paphnutius went to the monastery "for solace for his grief" [10] over the loss of his only daughter; the abbot sent Euphrosyne to provide him with spiritual direction and comfort, but Paphnutius did not recognize her because she covered her face with a veil and never revealed her ...

  9. Felix and Regula - Wikipedia

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    They are the patron saints of Zürich. Felix and Regula were brother and sister, beheaded in the third century, along with Exuperantius, for converting to Christianity. [ 1 ] Their feast day is 11 September in the Gregorian calendar, [ 2 ] celebrated on the same day using the Julian calendar (which is the 24th of September Gregorian), the 14th ...