Justice and dignity

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

• 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. Damien of MolokaiVolunteered for the leper colony no one could leave, and died one of them.
• St. DymphnaAsked for by people carrying anxiety, depression, and mental illness.
• St. GenevieveThe woman who told Paris not to flee Attila, and was right.
• St. GeorgeThe soldier-martyr behind the dragon legend, where the courage is the historical part.
• St. Gerard MajellaThe saint expectant mothers ask for, especially when a pregnancy is difficult.
• St. Joan of ArcThe teenager who led armies, was burned by a rigged court, and was proven right forever.
• St. Martin of ToursThe soldier who cut his cloak in half for a freezing beggar, and the patron of everyone leaving the military.
• St. Mary MagdaleneThe first witness of the resurrection, and the patron of second chances.
• St. Maximilian KolbeTook another man's place in a starvation cell at Auschwitz.
• St. Nicholas of MyraThe bishop behind Santa Claus: fiercer, poorer, and better than the legend.
• St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is invoked against fear.
• St. Rita of CasciaMarried into violence, outlived it, and is asked for in impossible situations.
• St. RochA pilgrim who nursed plague victims, caught it, and was fed by a dog, asked for in epidemics.
• St. Thomas MoreThe King's good servant, but God's first: patron of lawyers and of costly integrity.
• St. Vincent de PaulThe peasant priest who organised charity itself. Every parish food pantry descends from him.
• St. Alberto HurtadoChilean Jesuit, founded a home for the homeless from a station wagon; patron of the homeless and of labor.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. 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. Elizabeth of PortugalQueen who twice rode between armies to stop wars; patron of peacemakers in families.Page coming
• St. Ivo of Kermartin"A lawyer and not a thief, a marvel to the people"; patron of lawyers and of the poor in court.Page coming
• St. John FisherThe one bishop who refused; patron of standing alone.Page coming
• St. Joseph CalasanzOpened Europe's first free public school; patron of schools for the poor.Page coming
• St. Juan DiegoThe seer of Guadalupe; patron of indigenous peoples.Page coming
• St. Kateri TekakwithaMohawk convert; patron of ecology and of Native peoples.Page coming
• St. Katharine DrexelGave a banking fortune to Black and Native education; patron of racial justice and philanthropists.Page coming
• St. Lorenzo RuizFilipino layman, family man, martyred abroad; patron of Filipinos and of migrants.Page coming
• St. Martin de PorresBarred from full membership for his race, outshone the order that barred him; patron of racial harmony, barbers, and the poor.Page coming
• St. Mary MacKillopExcommunicated (briefly, wrongly) and vindicated; patron of Australia and of the unfairly disciplined.Page coming
• St. Oliver PlunkettThe last Catholic martyr at Tyburn; patron of peace in Ireland.Page coming
• St. Peter ClaverMet every slave ship at Cartagena for forty years; patron of enslaved peoples and of racial justice.Page coming
• St. Raymond of PenyafortCodified the Church's law; patron of canon and civil lawyers.Page coming
• St. Teresa of CalcuttaServed the dying of Calcutta through decades of interior darkness; patron of doubters who keep working and of the poorest.Page coming