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A list of Patron saints of occupations and activities:

  • Albertus Magnus - natural scientists
  • Alexius - nurses
  • Amand - bartenders, Boy Scouts, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners
  • Ambrose of Milan - bee keepers, wax melters and refiners
  • Andrew the Apostle - fish dealers, fishermen
  • Andrew Kim - Clergy of Korea
  • Anne - equestrians, stablemen
  • Anthony the Great - swineherds, motorists
  • Anthony of Padua - lost items, the poor, and travelers
  • Apollonia - dentists
  • Arnoldus - brewers
  • Augustine of Hippo - brewers, printers, and theologians
  • Barbara - architects, builders and miners, artillerymen and arsenals, prisoners
  • Bartholomew the Apostle - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
  • Basil the Great - hospital administrators
  • Benedict of Nursia - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Benno - fishermen
  • Bernadette of Lourdes - shepherds, shepherdesses
  • Bernard of Clairvaux - bee keepers, wax melters and refiners
  • Bernard of Venice - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Blaise - veterinarians, wool combers town criers and weavers
  • Botulph - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Brigid of Ireland - dairy farms and workers, healers
  • Camillus of Lellis - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
  • Catherine of Alexandria - tanners, nurses
  • Catherine of Siena - nursing services, nurses
  • Cecilia - musicians
  • Clare of Assisi - television
  • Saint Columbanus - motorcyclists, floods
  • Cosmas - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
  • Germaine Cousin - shepherdesses
  • Christopher - travellers
  • Crispin - tanners, shoemakers, cobblers, leatherworkers and curriers
  • Cuthbert - shepherds
  • Cuthman - shepherds (and Steyning)
  • Damian - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
  • Saint Dominic - astronomers, astronomy, falsely accused people, scientists
  • Dominic of Silos - shepherds
  • Drogo - shepherds
  • Dymphna - mental health professionals, therapists
  • Edward the Confessor - Kings
  • Eligius - veterinarians, farriers, farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry, harness makers, goldsmiths
  • Elisabeth of Hungary - hospitals, nursing services
  • Erasmus of FormiaeorElmo - pyrotechnicians, steeplejacks, chimney sweeps, sailors and anyone who works at great heights
  • Ephrem the Syrian — spiritual directors and spiritual leaders.
  • Erhard of Regensburg - hospitals
  • Eustachius - hunters
  • Fiacre - Taxi-drivers, venereal disease sufferers, horticulturists, hemorrhoid sufferers
  • Foillan - dentists, surgeons
  • Francis de Sales - writers/authors
  • Francis of Assisi - animal welfare and rights organizations and workers, hotdogs; Italy; environment
  • Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows - students, seminarians, clerics, youth
  • Gemma Galgani - pharmacists
  • Saint Genesius of Rome - actors, comedians and dancers
  • George - Agricultural workers; archers; armourers; Boy Scouts; butchers; cavalry; chivalry; Crusaders; England; equestrians; farms; farmhands; farmers; field hands; field workers; herpes; horsemen; horses; husbandry; husbandmen; knights; lepers; leprosy; Order of the Garter; Palestinian Christians; plague; ranches; riders; saddle makers; saddlers; scouts, sheep; shepherds; skin diseases; skin rashes; soldiers; syphilis; Teutonic Knights;
  • Rocco Gonzalez - Indigenous peoples of the Americas traditions
  • Rene Goupil - anesthesiologists
  • Homobonus - businessmen, tailors, and clothworkers
  • Hubertus - hunters, furriers
  • Isidore the Farmer - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Isidore of Sevilla - computer scientists, programmers, programming
  • Jadwiga of Poland - Queens, united Europe
  • James the Greater - veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists
  • James the Lesser - pharmacists
  • Januarius - blood banks
  • Saint Jane Frances de ChantalJane Frances de Chantal - forgotten people, loss of parents, parents separated from children, widows, girls
  • Jerome - librarians, translators
  • Joan of Arc - Girl Guides, soldiers
  • John the Almoner - Knights Hospitaller
  • John the Apostle - tanners
  • John the Baptist - farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller, Wroc?aw
  • John of God - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
  • John Baptist de la Salle - All Teachers of Youth
  • John Bosco - apprentices, editors, printers/publishers
  • Joseph the Betrothed - fighting Communism
  • Joseph of Cupertino - air travelers and aviators
  • Juan de Castillo - Indigenous peoples of the Americas traditions
  • Jude (also known as Jude Thaddeus) - lost causes, policepeople and hospitals and hospital workers
  • Julian the Hospitaller - shepherds
  • Lawrence - librarians, tanners, cooks (having been martyredbyroasting alive on a gridiron)
  • Luke the Apostle - doctors, surgeons, artists
  • Margaret of Antioch - nurses, pregnancy
  • Margaret of Castello - the unwanted, poor, crippled
  • Martha - dieticians
  • Mary Magdalen - tanners
  • Magnus - fish dealers, fishmongers
  • Albertus Magnus - chemists, medical technicians
  • Martin of Tours - equestrians
  • Michael the Archangel - shopping, radiologists, soldiers, paramedics, police officers, communications workers, postal workers
  • Miller - foursquare, mathematicians
  • Nicholas of Myra - children, sailors, fishermen, pharmacists, Prostitutes
  • Notburga - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Our Lady of Graces - Zabbar
  • Our Lady of Salambao - fishermen
  • Pantaleon - doctors
  • Saint Patrick - engineers
  • Paul the Apostle - hospital public relations
  • Paula - widows
  • Peter the Apostle - popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, masons, bridge builders, cloth makers, penitents, virgins; helps against: snake bites, rabies, demonic possession, ill legs, thefts
  • Phocas the Gardener - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Raphael - shepherds, shepherdesses
  • Raphael the Archangel - doctors, pharmacists, nurses
  • Raymond of Penyafort - medical record librarians
  • Regina - shepherdesses
  • John Regis - medical social workers
  • Roch - surgeons
  • Alonso Rodriguez - Indigenous peoples of the Americas traditions
  • Severus of Avranches - silk workers, wool weavers and manufacturers
  • Simon - tanners
  • Solange - shepherdesses
  • Tatiana - students
  • Thomas Aquinas - students
  • Thomas More - Politicians, Statesmen, Lawyers
  • Turibius of Mogroveio - Indigenous peoples of the Americas rights
  • Valentine - bee keepers
  • Vincent de Paul - hospitals and hospital workers
  • Walston - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
  • Wolbodo - students
  • Francis Xavier Cabrini - immigrants, hospital administrators
  • Yves - lawyers
  • Zeno of Verona - fishermen

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