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A patron saint is a heavenly friend—someone who’s already in heaven and who has lived a life of heroic virtue. They are not gods or goddesses; they’re regular people who lived lives of extraordinary faith.
Oct 21, 2015 · Interests, talents, hobbies, job, vocation, heritage. God made each of us with interests and talents that reveal themselves in and point us toward hobbies and jobs, and indeed our lives’ vocations, and there’s a patron saint for every one of those details.
This is a list of patron saints of occupations and activities, it also encompasses groups of people with a common occupation or activity.
On Oct. 28, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Jude, also known as Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles. He is believed to have written the Letter of Jude, one of the shortest books of the Bible, and is thought to have been martyred in Beirut around 65 A.D. He is typically depicted with a club or axe, symbolizing the way he died ...
Angels can also be named as patron saints. 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. For example, Francis of Assisi loved nature and so he is patron of ecologists.
PatronageSaints Patronage / SaintsAIDS care-giversAIDS care-givers Aloysius GonzagaAIDS patientsAIDS patients Aloysius Gonzaga, Peregrine ...Abandoned childrenAbandoned children Ivo of Kermartin, ...Abbeville, FranceAbbeville, France Wulfram of SensFrom academics to zookeepers, there’s a patron saint to protect everyone - even clowns. In the UK, four patron saints represent each of the nations: St George in England, St Patrick in Northern Ireland, St Andrew in Scotland, and St David in Wales.
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Sep 9, 2018 · Few practices of the Catholic Church are so misunderstood today as devotion to patron saints. From the earliest days of the Church, groups of the faithful (families, parishes, regions, countries) have chosen a particularly holy person who has passed on to intercede for them with God.