Health and illness

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

• St. AgathaA martyr of Sicily, asked for by women facing breast cancer.
• St. Aloysius GonzagaRenounced a princely inheritance at seventeen and died at twenty-three nursing plague victims.
• St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.
• St. André BessetteA doorkeeper in Montreal for forty years, associated with thousands of healings he refused credit for.
• St. Bernadette SoubirousThe girl who saw Our Lady at Lourdes, asked for by the sick and the poor.
• St. BlaiseA physician-bishop, asked for by anyone with a throat ailment.
• St. Camillus de LellisA gambler who lost everything, then invented modern nursing, asked for by the sick and by gamblers.
• St. Catherine of SienaA dyer's daughter who told the pope to his face to come home to Rome, and he did.
• St. Charbel MakhloufA Lebanese hermit-monk whose tomb became one of the world's most reported healing sites.
• St. Charles BorromeoThe reforming cardinal who stayed in plague-struck Milan when the officials fled.
• St. Damien of MolokaiVolunteered for the leper colony no one could leave, and died one of them.
• St. Gemma GalganiA young mystic of Lucca who lived with spinal tuberculosis, asked for by people with back pain.
• St. John of GodA soldier turned hospital founder, asked for by heart patients and the mentally ill.
• St. LucyA young martyr of Syracuse whose name means light, asked for by people with eye trouble.
• St. Peregrine LaziosiA cancer patient himself, asked for by people facing the same diagnosis.
• St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.
• St. Raphael the ArchangelThe archangel of healing, safe travel, and finding the right person.
• St. RochA pilgrim who nursed plague victims, caught it, and was fed by a dog, asked for in epidemics.
• St. SebastianThe officer executed twice: he survived the arrows, went back, and finished the martyrdom.
• St. Teresa of ÁvilaA Carmelite reformer who prayed dry for twenty years, asked for by headache sufferers and anyone whose prayer feels like nothing.
• Bl. Solanus CaseyDetroit's own: the Capuchin doorkeeper of St. Bonaventure on Mt. Elliott, ordained "simplex," associated with thousands of favors; patron of the sick and the ordinary.Page coming
• St. Anthony the AbbotFather of monks and desert wisdom; invoked for skin diseases and for butchers and farm animals.Page coming
• St. ApolloniaHer teeth were broken in the persecution; patron of dentists and dental patients.Page coming
• St. Basil the GreatBuilt the first great charitable hospital complex; patron of hospital administrators.Page coming
• St. Benedict Joseph LabreThe homeless pilgrim of Rome, rejected by every monastery; patron of the homeless and of people with mental illness.Page coming
• St. DenisFirst bishop of Paris, martyred; invoked against headaches, by tradition.Page coming
• St. Dulce Lopes Pontes"The good angel of Bahia"; Brazil's first native-born woman saint; patron of the poor and of nurses.Page coming
• St. Erasmus (Elmo)Bishop-martyr; patron of sailors and invoked for abdominal ailments.Page coming
• St. GilesHermit; invoked for centuries by people with disabilities and by those afraid of confession.Page coming
• St. Joseph MoscatiPhysician-professor of Naples who treated the poor free; patron of doctors and medical students.Page coming
• St. Julie BilliartParalyzed and healed, founded schools; patron of people with disabilities and of teachers.Page coming
• St. LukePhysician and evangelist; patron of doctors and artists.Page coming
• St. Marianne CopeWent where Damien died and stayed thirty years; patron of outcasts and of nurses in impossible postings.Page coming
• St. PantaleonPhysician-martyr; co-patron of doctors.Page coming
• St. Rafael Arnáiz BarónYoung Trappist with diabetes; patron of diabetics and of interrupted vocations.Page coming
• St. RafqaLebanese nun who prayed to share Christ's suffering, blind and paralyzed her last years; patron of the chronically ill.Page coming
• St. TimothyPaul's protégé; invoked for stomach ailments, on Paul's own advice.Page coming
• St. VitusBoy martyr; invoked against epilepsy and seizure disorders.Page coming
• Sts. Cosmas and DamianTwin physicians who charged nothing; patrons of doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists.Page coming