to It Is Well With My Soul. Patron Saints for Chronic and Incurable Illnesses
to It Is Well With My Soul.
Some of the illnesses and conditions listed on the left may actually be curable, and a person could recover from them. However, I wanted to include all the saints who have anything to do with our mental and physical health, so they are also listed. Column 1 lists the malady, and column 2 the corresponding saints.
| Abdominal pains | Erasmus (Elmo), Agapitus, Charles Borromeo, Emerentiana, Liborius |
| Against chest problems; lungs; respiratory ailments | Bernadine of Siena |
| Against earaches | Cornelius, Polycarp of Smyrna |
| Against gout; gout sufferers | Andrew, Apostle, Coloman, Maurus, Gregory the Great, Killian, Maurice, Gerebernus, Totnan, Apollinaris, Erconwald of London |
| Against hoarseness | Bernardine of Siena, Maurus |
| Against inflammatory diseases | Benedict |
| Against kidney disease | Benedict, Drogo, Valentine, Margaret of Antioch, Ursus of Ravenna |
| Against pain; cures from pain; pain relief | Madron |
| Against ruptures | Drogo, Florentius of Strasburg, Osmund |
| Against stiff neck | Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne |
| Against twitching | Bartholomew the Apostle, Cornelius |
| Against typhus, against typhoid | Adelard |
| Against ulcers; ulcer sufferers | Charles Borromeo, Job |
| Against whooping cough | Blaise, Winoc |
| AIDS patients | Aloysius Gonzaga, Peregrine Laziosi, Therese of Lisieux |
| Alcoholism | John of God, Martin of Tours, Monica, Urban of Langres, Matthias |
| Amputees | Anthony of Padua, Antony the Abbot |
| Angina sufferers | Swithbert |
| Apoplexy (Strokes) | Andrew Avellino, Wolfgang |
| Appendicitis | Erasmus (Elmo) |
| Arm pain; pain in the arms | Amalburga |
| Arthritis; rheumatism | Alphonsus de Liguori, Colman, James the Greater, Killian, Servatus, Totnan |
| Bacterial disease and infection | Agrippina |
| Blind people | Raphael the Archangel, Lucy, Catald, Dunstan, Lawrence the Illuminator, Leodegarius, Lutgardis, Odilia, Parasceva, Thomas (Apostle), Cosmas and Damian |
| Bodily ills | Our Lady of Lourdes, John Bosco, John the Apostle |
| Breast cancer | Agatha, Aldegundis, Giles, Peregrine Laziosi |
| Breast disease, invoked against | Agatha |
| Broken bones | Drogo, Stanislaus Kostka |
| Burns | John the Apostle |
| Cancer victims/patients | Peregrine Laziosi |
| Childhood diseases | Aldegundis, Pharaildis |
| Childhood intestinal diseases | Erasmus (Elmo) |
| Children, sick | Beuno, Clement I, Hugh of Lincoln, Ubald Baldassini |
| Cholera | Roch |
| Colic | Erasmus (Elmo) |
| Contagious diseases | Robert Bellarmine, Sebastian |
| Convulsions | John the Baptist, Willibrord |
| Convulsive children | Guy of Anderlecht, John the Baptist, Scholastica |
| Coughs; against | Blaise, Quentin, Walburga |
| Deafness; Deaf people | Cadoc of Llancarvan, Drogo, Francis de Sales, Meriadoc, Ouen |
| Depression; Insanity; Madness | Benedict Joseph Labre, Bibiana, Christina the Astonishing, Drogo, Dymphna, Eustochium of Padua, Fillan, Giles, Job, Margaret of Cortona, Maria Fortunata Viti, Medard, Michelina, Osmund, Raphaela, Romanus of Condat, Veran |
| Desperate situations | Jude, Gregory the Wonderworker, Rita of Cascia, Eustace |
| Desperate, forgotten, impossible/lost causes or situations |
Jude Thaddeus, Rita of Cascia, Philomena, Gregory Thaumaturgus |
| Disabled; handicapped; physically challenged people | Giles, Alphais, Angela Merici, Gerard of Aurillac, Germaine Cousin, Henry II, Lutgardis, Margaret of Castello, Seraphina, Servatus, Servulus |
| Diseases of the eye | Raphael the Archangel, Lucy |
| Diseases, contagious | Roch, Sebastian |
| Diseases, nervous | Dymphna |
| Dizziness; vertigo | Ulric |
| Drug addiction | Maximillian Kolbe |
| Dying people, invoked by | Abel, John of God, Joseph, Catherine of Alexandria, James the Lesser the Apostle, Margaret (or Marina) of Antioch, Michael the Archangel, Benedict, Nicholas of Tolentino, Barbara |
| Dysentery | Lucy of Syracuse, Polycarp |
| Eczema; skin rashes; skin diseases | Antony the Abbot, George, Marculf, Peregrine Laziosi, Roch |
| Epilepsy | Dymphna, Vitus, Willibrord, Alban of Mainz, Antony the Abbot, Apollinaris, Balthasar, Bibiana, Catald, Christopher, Cornelius, Genesius, Gerard of Lunel, Giles, Guy of Anderlecht, John Chrysostom, John the Baptist, Valentine |
| Eye disorders; eye diseases; eye problems; sore eyes | Herve, Clare, Lucy, Raphael the Archangel, Aloysius Gonzaga, Augustine of Hippo, Cyriacus, Erhard of Regensburg, Leodegarius, Odilia, Symphorian of Autun |
| Fainting; faintness | Urban of Langres, Ursus of Ravenna, Valentine |
| Fever | Genevieve, Adalard, Amalberga, Andrew Abellon, Antoninus of Florence, Benedict, Castorus, Cornelius, Dominic of sora, Domitian of Huy, Gerebernus, Gertrude of Nivelles, Hugh of Cluny, Jodocus, Liborius, Mary of Oignies, Nicostratus, Peterthe Apostle, Petronilla, Raymond Nonnatus, Severus of Avranches, Sigismund, Simpronian, Theobald Roggeri, Ulric, Winnoc |
| Fistula | Fiacre |
| Foot problems | Peter the Apostle, Servatus |
| Gall stones | Benedict, Drogo, Liborius, Florentius of Strasburg |
| Glandular disorders | Cadoc of Llancarvan |
| Goitres | Blaise |
| Haemorrhoid sufferers | Fiacre |
| Head injuries | John Licci |
| Headaches | Teresa of Avila, Acacius, Anastasius the Persian, Bibiana, Dionysius the Aeropagite, Gerard of Lunel, Gereon, Pancras, Stephen the Martyr, William Firmatus, Denis the Bishop of Paris |
| Health | Infant Jesus of Prague |
| Heart patients | John of God |
| Hemorrhage | Lucy |
| Hernia | Alban of Mainz, Drogo, Catald, Conrad of Piacenza, Cosmas and Damian, Gummarus |
| Hernia sufferers | Cathal |
| Herpes | George |
| Hopeless (or desperate) cases | Jude, Rita of Cascia, Gregory the Wonderworker |
| Hydrophobia, or rabies | Hubert, Ubald, Dominic de Silos, Guy of Anderlecht, Otto of Bamberg, Sithney, Walburga |
| Insanity | Dymphna |
| Intestinal/Stomach Disease | Brice, Charles Borromeo, Emerentiana, Erasmus (Elmo), Timothy, Wolfgang |
| Invalids | Roch |
| Jaundice | Odilo |
| Kidney stones; gravel | Alban of Mainz, Liborius |
| Knee diseases or trouble | Roch |
| Lame, the | Giles |
| Leg disease or trouble | Servatus |
| Lepers; leprosy | George, Giles, Lazarus, Vincent de Paul |
| Lumbago | Lawrence |
| Lungs; chest; respiratory problems | Bernardine of Siena |
| Mentally ill | Dymphna |
| Migraine; migraine sufferers | Gereon, Severus of Avranches, Ubald Baldassini |
| Mute people, muteness, dumbness | Drogo |
| Nervous diseases | Vitus, Dymphna, Bartholomew the Apostle |
| Neuralgia | Ubald Baldassini |
| Neurological disorders | Dymphna, Bartholomew the Apostle |
| Open sores | Peregrine Laziosi |
| Paralysis, paralysed people | Osmund, Catald, Wolfgang |
| Physically Disabled | Giles |
| Plague | Gregory the Great, Roch, Adrian of Micomedia, Catald, Colman of Stockerau, Cuthbert, Edmund of East Anglia, Erhard of Regensburg, Francis of Paola, Francis Xavier, George, Genevieve, Macarius of Antioch, Valentine, Walburga, Sebastian |
| Polio | Margaret Mary Alacoque |
| Prolonged Suffering | Lydwina of Schiedam |
| Rabies | Hubert, Ubald |
| Rabies, hydrophobia, mad dogs | Dominic of Silos, Guy of Anderlecht, Hubert of Liege |
| Reformed alcoholics | Martin of Tours, Matthias |
| Rheumatoid sufferers; rheumatism, arthritis | Coloman, James the Greater, Killian, Servatus, Totnan |
| Saint Vitus's dance; rheumatic chorea |
Vitus |
| Sickness; sick people | John of God, Camillus de Lellis, Alphais, Alphonsa of India, Angela Merici, Angela Truszkowska, Arthelais, Bathild, Bernadetteof Lourdes, Catherine del Ricci, Catherine of Siena, Drogo, Edel Quinn, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Gerard of Villamagna, Germaine Cousin, Gorgonia, Hugh of Lincoln, Isabella of France, Jacinta Marto, Julia Billiart, Julia Falconieri, Juliana of Nicomedia, Louis IX, Louise de Marillac, Lydwina of Schiedam, Maria Bagnesi, Maria Gabriella, Maria Mazzarello, Marie Rose Durocher, Mary Ann de Paredes, Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, Our Lady of Lourdes, Michael the Archangel, Paula Frassinetti, Peregrine Laziosi, Philomena, Raphael, Romula, Syncletica, Teresa of Avila, Rafka Al-Rayes, Teresa Valse Pantellini, Terese of the Andes, Therese of Lisieux |
| Skin diseases | Antony the Abbot, George, Marculf, Peregrine Laziosi, Roch |
| Smallpox | Matthias |
| Spasms | John the Baptist |
| Stammering children | Notkar Balbulus |
| Stomach disorders | Timothy, Erasmus (Elmo) |
| Strokes | Andrew Avellino |
| Syphilis | Fiacre, George, Symphorian of Autun |
| Throat ailments | Blaise, Ludmila, Andrew the Apostle, Etheldreda, Godelieve, Ignatius of Antioch, Lucy, Swithbert |
| Toothache | Apollonia |
| Tuberculosis, consumption | Pantaleon, Therese of Lisieux |
| Venereal disease | Fiacre |
| wounds | Aldegundis, Rita of Cascia |
For Patron Saints for other situations, please check our Patron Saint Index.
For more information about any of the saints listed above, you might try a source like the Catholic Online Saints Index.
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01/24/2006
