Addiction and recovery

Any of these can be asked. There is no order of precedence and no wrong choice, so pick whoever the story fits.

• St. Camillus de LellisA gambler who lost everything, then invented modern nursing, asked for by the sick and by gamblers.
• St. Maximilian KolbeTook another man's place in a starvation cell at Auschwitz.
• St. MonicaPrayed seventeen years for a son who had left the faith.
• Venerable Matt TalbotA Dublin labourer who drank for sixteen years and stayed sober for forty-one.
• St. Bernardine of SienaThe great popular preacher; patron of advertisers, and invoked against compulsive gambling.Page coming
• St. Moses the BlackGang leader turned desert father; patron of people leaving violence behind.Page coming