Patron Saints: H to K

A Patron Saint is one who has been appointed by the Vatican as special protectors or guardians over different circumstances and areas of life. Most of the time, they are patrons of professions or circumstances that the saints themselves have experienced or dealt with personally during their own lives. A patron saint can help us when we follow the example of that saint's life, and when we ask for that saint's intercessory prayers to God.

The Index is organized alphabetically according to the intention/circumstance in the left column. The corresponding patron saint is listed in the right column. Some of the saints are more well known than others. I suggest you read more about their lives from one of these online sources:

haberdashers	Louis IX, Michael the Archangel
Haemorrhage	Lucy
Haemorrhoid sufferers	Fiacre
Hail	Magnus of Fussen
Hairdressers	Martin de Porres, Cosmas and Damian
hangovers	Bibiana
happy meetings	Raphael the Archangel
harness makers	Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Eligius (Eloi)
harvesters	Peter the Apostle
harvests	Anthony of Padua, Florian, Jodocus, Medard of Noyon, Walburga
hatmakers, hatters, milliners	Barbara, Clement I, James the Lesser, Apostle, Michael the Archangel, Severus of Avranches
head injuries	John Licci
Headaches	Teresa of Avila, Denis, Bishop of Paris
healers	Bridgid of Ireland
health	Infant Jesus of Prague
Health inspectors	Raphael the Archangel
Health service, public	Martin de Porres
Heart patients	John of God
hermits, recluses	Anthony the Abbott, Giles
hernia	Alban of Mainz, Cosmas and Damian, Drogo, Gummarus
Hernia sufferers	Cathal
herpes	George
Highways, motorways	John the Baptist
holy death	Andrew Avellino, Christopher, Joseph, Michael the Archangel, Ursula
homeless people, hoboes, tramps	Benedict Joseph Labre, Edwin, Elizabeth of Hungary, Lufthild, Margaret of Cortona
homemakers, housewives, housekeepers	Anne, Martha, Monica, Zita
Hopeless (or desperate) cases	Jude, Rita of Cascia, Gregory the Wonderworker
horse men, riders, equestrians	Anne, George, James the Greater, Martin of Tours
Horticulturalists	Adam, Fiacre
hospital administrators	Basil the Great, Frances Xavier Cabrini
hospital public relations	Paul, Apostle
hospital workers	Camillus de Lellis, John of God, Jude Thaddeus, Vincent Ferrer
hospitality, hospitallers	Julian the Hospitaller, Meinrad
Hospitals	Camillus de Lellis, John of God, Vincent de Paul
Hoteliers	Gentian
Hotelkeepers	Amand
house hunters or sellers	Joseph
House hunting	Joseph
Housewives	Anne (Mother of Mary), Martha
human race, people	Mary, Mother of God
Hunters	Hubert, Eustachius
Hydrophobia, or rabies	Hubert, Ubald

Immigrants	Frances Xavier Cabrini
Impossible Cases	Rita of Cascia
in-law problems	Adelaide, Elizabeth of Hungary, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Godelieve, Jeanne de Chantal, Jeanne Marie de Maille, Ludmila, Pulcheria
incest victims	Dymphna, Laurent (Lawrence)
Infantry	Martin of Tours
infantrymen	Maurice
Infertility	Rita of Cascia
Information Workers	Archangel Gabriel
Innkeepers	Gentian
innocence	Hallvard
Innocent people (falsely accused)	Raymond Nonnatus
inquisitors	Peter of Verona
Insanity	Dymphna
insect bites	Mark the Apostle, Narcissus
inter-racial justice, race relations, racial harmony	Martin de Porres, Peter Claver
interior souls	Joseph
Invalids	Roch
invoked in time of war	Elizabeth of Portugal
iron mongers, hardware, hardware stores	Sebastian

jaundice	Odilo
Jesuit Order; Jesuits	Ignatius of Loyola
Jesuit students	Aloysius Gonzaga
Jewelers	Eligius (Eloi)
job seekers, unemployed people	Cajetan
jockeys	Eligius (Eloi)
Journalists	Francis de Sales
Journeys, safe	Christopher
Judges/Jurists	John of Capistrano, Ivo of Kermartin, Nicholas of Myra
Justice, social	Martin de Porres
Juvenile delinquents	Dominic Savio

kidnap victims	Arthelais, Dagobert II
kidney stones; gravel	Alban of Mainz
kings	Casimir of Poland, Dagobert II, Edwin, Henry II, Louis IX, Olaf II
knee diseases or trouble	Roch
knights	George, James the Greater, Julian the Hospitaller, Michael the Archangel
Knights of Malta, Maltese Knights	John the Baptist
knowledge	Holy Spirit