Patron saints of ailments, illness and dangers
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A list of patron saints of ailments, illness and dangers:
- Agatha - breast cancer
- Agricola of Avignon - bubonic plague, misfortunes
- Andrew Avellino - sudden death
- Andrew Corsini - riot, civil disorder
- Apollonia - toothache
- Augustine of Hippo - sore eyes
- Balbina - scrofula
- Blaise - ailments of the throat
- Coloman - plague, sick horses, against hanging
- Crescentinus - headache
- Cyriacus - eye disease
- Domninus - rabies
- Dymphna - sleepwalking, epilepsy, insanity, mental illness
- Epipodius - victims of betrayal and of torture
- Fiacre - Venereal disease sufferers, hemorrhoids
- Fourteen Holy Helpers - epidemics, bubonic plague or the Black Death
- Hippolytus of Rome - sick horses
- James the Great - rheumatism
- Juliana of Nicomedia - childbirth, sickness
- Leodegar - blindness, eye disease, eye problems, sore eyes
- Lucy of Syracuse - haemorrhage, eye complaints
- Marculf - scrofula, diseases of the skin
- Saint Maurus - rheumatism, gout, epilepsy
- Saint Peregrine Laziosi - cancer, AIDS
- Pancras - cramp, headache
- Saint Pio of Pietrelcina - Stress relief and New year blues
- Saint Quentin - coughs, sneezes, and dropsy.
- Simon of Trent - torture and kidnap victims (no longer venerated)
- Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt - angina
- Symphorian - syphilis, eye troubles
- Teresa of Avila - headaches
- Ubald - migraine, neuralgia, sick children
- Vitus - chorea
- Winnoc - fever, whooping cough
- Wulfram of Sens is called upon for protection against the dangers of the sea.
