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Paschal Baylón (24 May 1540 – 15 May 1592) was a Spanish Roman Catholic lay professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor.He served as a shepherd alongside his father in his childhood and adolescence, but desired to enter the religious life.
Sepulcher of St. Paschal Baylon, silver work of Vicente Lloréns Poy. On May 17, 1992, on the occasion of the 4th centenary of the saint's death, the new Royal Chapel was inaugurated, sculpted by Vicente Lloréns Poy, and the remains of the saint were placed in the new silver tomb that represents the lying body of St. Paschal.
Saint Barbara, patron saint of artillerymen, with a cannon. Academics - Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great; Actors - Genesius [1] Comic actors - Maturinus; Accountants - Matthew; Advertisers - Bernardino of Siena [2] Air travellers - Joseph of Cupertino; Altar servers - John Berchmans, [3] Tarcisius, Lorenzo Ruiz; Ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel
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, Lutheranism, 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]
Aloysius Gonzaga (1568–1591), Italian, patron saint of young Christians. Roque González de Santa Cruz (1576–1628), the film The Mission is based on his life. John Soan de Goto (1578–1597), one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. Rene Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary and one of the first North American martyrs.
24 Saint Timothy, pastor (Lesser Festival) W - LCMS Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe; 25 Conversion of Paul the Apostle (W) Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Ends - ELCA; 26 Timothy, Titus, and Silas, missionaries (Commemoration) W – ELCA Saint Titus, pastor (Lesser Festival) W - LCMS; 27 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407 (W) – LCMS
Saint Gerald, considered by his Church and his followers as a great example of a celibate Christian aristocrat, is the patron saint of counts and bachelors. Because of his poor health and blindness, more emphasized in his developing cult than in Odo's Life , he is also the patron saint of the disabled, handicapped, and physically challenged.
San Pascualito (also known as San Pascualito Muerte and El Rey San Pascual) is a folk saint associated with Saint Paschal Baylon and venerated in Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas. He is called "King of the Graveyard." [1] His veneration is associated with the curing of disease, and is related to the Latin American cult of death.