Patron saint - Wikipedia

In Roman Catholicism, a Patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. St Florian is the patron saint of firefighters, and Saint Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, for example. Eastern Orthodoxy generally doesn't associate saints with occupations and activities, or does so to a much lesser degree.

Patron saints can also be associated with geographical areas: Joseph the Betrothed is the patron saint of Belgium, and Saint Patrick is patron saint of Ireland, for example.

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1 Saints associated with occupations and activities

2 Saints associated with countries, nations and/or regions

3 Saints associated with protection from ailments or illness

4 External Links

Saints associated with occupations and activities

Agatha[?] - nurses
Alexius - nurses
Ambrose of Milan[?] - bee keepers[?], wax melters and refiners
Andrew the Apostle[?] - fish dealers, fishermen
Anne[?] - equestrians[?], stablemen[?]
Anthony the Abbott[?] - swineherds
Anthony of Padua - fishermen, swineherds
Apollonia[?] - dentists
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin[?] - fish dealers, harness[?] makers
Barbara[?] - architects and builders[?], artillerymen[?] and arsenals, prisoners[?]
Bartholomew the Apostle[?] - tanners[?], leatherworkers and curriers[?]
Basil the Great - hospital administrators
Benedict - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
Benno[?] - fishermen
Bernadette of Lourdes[?] - shepherds, shepherdesses
Bernard of Clairvaux - bee keepers[?], wax melters and refiners
Bernard of Venice[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
Blaise[?] - veterinarians, wool combers and weavers[?]
Blessed Virgin Mary - airplane crews and pilots (esp. Belgian, Spanish and French), Andorran security forces, Argentinian Army[?], Navy[?] and military chaplains, bicyclists, blood donors[?], boatmen, Bolivian Navy[?] builders, Chilean Army[?] and Navy[?], Cistercian Order[?], clothworkers, coffee house keepers and owners, construction workers, cooks, coopers[?], distillers[?], drapers[?], Ecuadorian Army[?], enlightenment, fishermen and sellers, goldsmiths, harness[?] makers, lamp makers, mothers, motorcyclists, navigators, needle and pin[?] makers, news sellers, nuns, oblate vocations[?], potters, restauranteurs, ribbon[?] makers, sailors, silk workers, silversmiths, soldiers of the United States, Spanish architects and police officers, tapestry workers, Teutonic Knights, travellers, tilemakers[?], uphosterers[?], Venezeulan[?] National Guard, virgins, yachtsmen
Botulph[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
Brigid of Ireland[?] - dairy farms and workers, healers
Camillus of Lellis[?] - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
Catherine of Alexandria - tanners[?], nurses
Catherine of Siena - nursing services, nurses
Cosmas[?] - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
Germaine Cousin[?] - shepherdesses
Christopher - travellers
Crispian[?] - tanners[?], leatherworkers and curriers[?]
Crispin[?] - tanners[?], leatherworkers and curriers[?]
Cuthbert - shepherds
Cuthman[?] - shepherds
Damian[?] - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
Dominic of Silos[?] - shepherds
Drogo[?] - shepherds
Eligius[?] - veterinarians, farriers[?], farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?], harness[?] makers
Elizabeth of Hungary[?] - hospitals, nursing services
Erhard of Regensburg[?] - hospitals
Eustachius - hunters
Feast of the Immaculate Conception[?] - soldiers of the United States
Foillan[?] - dentists, surgeons
Francis of Assisi - animal welfare and rights organizations and workers
Gemma Galgani[?] - pharmacists
George[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?], equestrians[?]
Rocco Gonzalez[?] - Native American traditions
Rene Goupil[?] - anethesiologists[?]
Hubert of Liege[?] - hunters, furriers[?]
Isidore the Farmer[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
James the Greater[?] - veterinarians, equestrians[?], furriers[?], tanners[?], pharmacists
James the Lesser[?] - pharmacists
Januarius[?] - blood banks[?]
Jerome - librarians
John the Almoner[?] - Knights Hospitaller
John the Apostle - tanners[?]
John the Baptist - farriers[?], bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller
John of God[?] - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
John Bosco - apprentices[?], editors, printers/publishers
Joseph the Betrothed - fighting Communism
Juan de Castillo[?] - Native American traditions
Jude[?] - hopeless cases
Jude Thaddeus[?] - hospitals and hospital workers
Julian the Hospitaller[?] - shepherds
Saint Lawrence - librarians, tanners[?]
Luke the Apostle[?] - doctors, surgeons
Margaret of Antioch - nurses, pregnancy
Martha - dieticians[?]
Mary Magdalen[?] - tanners[?]
Magnus - fish dealers
Albertus Magnus - medical technicians
Martin of Tours - equestrians[?]
Michael the Archangel[?] - radiologists, soldiers
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin[?] - fish dealers, silk workers
Nicholas of Myra - fishermen, pharmacists
Notburga[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
Our Lady of Salambao[?] - fishermen
Pantaleon[?] - doctors
Paul the Apostle[?] - hospital public relations
Peter the Apostle[?] - fishermen
Phocas the Gardener[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
Saint Raphael[?] - shepherds, shepherdesses
Raphael the Archangel[?] - doctors, pharmacists, nurses
Raymond of Penyafort[?] - medical record librarians
Regina - shepherdesses
John Regis[?] - medical social workers
Roch[?] - surgeons
Alonso Rodriguez[?] - Native American traditions
Severus of Avranches[?] - silk workers, wool weavers and manufacturers
Simon - tanners[?]
Solange[?] - shepherdesses
Transfiguration of Our Lord[?] - pork butchers[?] and processors
Turibius of Mogroveio[?] - Native American rights
Valentine[?] - bee keepers[?]
Vincent de Paul[?] - hospitals and hospital workers
Walston[?] - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry[?]
Francis Xavier Cabrini[?] - hospital administrators
Zeno of Verona[?] - fishermen