St. Anthony
Patronage: lost articles; lower animals; Mail; oppressed people; poor people; Portugal; seekers of lost articles; travel hostesses
St. Basil
Patronage: Hospital administrators, Reformers, Monks, Education, Exorcism
St. Catherine
Patronage: Unmarried girls
St. David
Patronage: Vegetarians; poets
St. Elmo
Patronage: colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps
St. Fabian
Birth name: Fabianus
St. Giles
Patronage: fear of night; forests; hermits; lepers; mental illness; noctiphobics; outcasts; poor people
St. Helena
Patronage: difficult marriages; divorced people
St. Isidore
Patronage: The internet
St. Jude
Patronage: lost causes; desperate people
St. Kyriaki
"As she was about to be decapitated, she started praying to God. That was the last thing that she ever did. At the time of her death she was 21 years old."
St. Louis
Patronage: France, French monarchy; hairdressers; passementiers
St. Methodius
Patronage: Ecumenism
St. Ninian
"Nothing is known about his teachings"
St. Olaf
Patronage: carvers; difficult marriage; kings
St. Pancras
"Pancras withdrew to a cave in Pontus where he was discovered by Saint Peter and was sent to Sicily in the year 40 to be the first Bishop of Tauromenium (the modern Taormina). There he met his death by stoning at the hands of pagan opponents of the new religion."
St. Quirinus
Patronage: invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, and gout; afflictions associated with the legs, feet, ears; paralysis; ulcers; goiter; skin conditions; diseases affecting cattle and horses
St. Rumbold
Attributes: Depicted as ... a bearded man with a hoe lying under his feet. He may also be shown murdered near a coffer of money.
St. Seiya
"Seiya is sent to the Sanctuary in Greece to become the Pegasus Saint. After six years, Seiya becomes the Pegasus Saint and returns to Japan to find his older sister. Because his sister disappeared the same day Seiya went to the Sanctuary, Saori Kido, the granddaughter of the person who sent all the orphans to train, makes a deal with him to go to fight in a tournament called the Galaxian Wars, where the orphans who survived and became Bronze Saints must fight to win the most powerful Cloth: The Sagittarius Gold Cloth. If Seiya goes to compete there and wins, Saori would start a search to find Seiya's sister."
St. Tail
"The first seven dubbed episodes were loosely based on the original dialogue and, perhaps in an act of political correctness, removed references to God. (This is especially awkward because the story follows students in a private religious school, and because Saint Tail's stealing is sinful to her religion, she always asks for God's forgiveness before a caper)."
St. Ursula
"The Huns shot Ursula dead"
St. Vitus
Patronage: actors; comedians; dancers; dogs; epilepsy; oversleeping
St. Wenceslaus
"There are many legends about King Wenceslaus. An old one claims a huge army of knights sleep inside BlanĂk, a mountain in the Czech Republic. The knights will awake and under the command of St. Wenceslaus and bring aid to the Czech people when they face ultimate danger"
St. Xenia
"She possessed a deep humility, accounting herself the worst and most sinful of all."
St. Yves
Patronage: Brittany, lawyers, abandoned children
St. Zeno
"According to legend he was stolen at birth and briefly replaced by a demonic changeling. One story relates that Saint Zeno, one day fishing on the banks of the Adige, which he did in order to feed himself (rather than as recreation), saw a peasant crossing the river in a horse and cart. The horses began to get strangely skittish. Zeno, believing this to be the work of the devil, made the sign of the cross, and the horses calmed down."
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