Mental and emotional

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

• St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.
• St. DymphnaAsked for by people carrying anxiety, depression, and mental illness.
• St. John of GodA soldier turned hospital founder, asked for by heart patients and the mentally ill.
• St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is invoked against fear.
• St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.
• 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. Philip NeriThe laughing saint of Rome; patron of joy and of not taking yourself seriously.Page coming
• St. UbaldusInvoked against obsessive fear and harassment.Page coming