Protection and safety

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

• St. BarbaraThe tower, the lightning bolt, and the promise of not dying unprepared.
• St. Benedict of NursiaWrote the rule that shaped western monasticism, and is invoked against evil.
• St. FlorianThe Roman officer drowned for protecting Christians, and the firefighters' saint.
• 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. Ignatius of LoyolaA vain soldier rebuilt by a cannonball, who wrote the manual for finding what God wants from you.
• 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. Michael the ArchangelInvoked for protection, and by people whose work puts them in danger.
• St. ScholasticaBenedict's twin sister, who prayed up a thunderstorm to keep her brother one more night.
• St. SebastianThe officer executed twice: he survived the arrows, went back, and finished the martyrdom.
• Bl. Miguel ProJesuit executed in Mexico, arms out, "Viva Cristo Rey"; patron of persecuted Christians.Page coming
• St. DismasThe good thief; patron of prisoners and deathbed conversions.Page coming
• St. Dominic SavioBosco's pupil, dead at fourteen; patron of choirboys and the falsely accused.Page coming
• St. John NepomuceneDied rather than break the seal of confession; patron of confessors and against slander.Page coming
• St. José Sánchez del RíoFourteen-year-old martyr of the Cristero War; patron of persecuted youth.Page coming
• St. Joseph CafassoChaplain to the condemned of Turin; patron of prisoners on death row and prison chaplains.Page coming
• St. Josephine BakhitaKidnapped and enslaved as a child in Sudan, chose her chains' opposite; patron of trafficking survivors.Page coming
• St. Leonard of NoblacPatron of prisoners and captives.Page coming
• St. Maria GorettiMurdered at eleven resisting assault, forgave her attacker by name; patron of survivors of assault.Page coming
• St. Marianne CopeWent where Damien died and stayed thirty years; patron of outcasts and of nurses in impossible postings.Page coming
• St. Moses the BlackGang leader turned desert father; patron of people leaving violence behind.Page coming
• St. Nuno Álvares PereiraGeneral turned Carmelite lay brother; patron of veterans.Page coming
• St. Oscar RomeroShot at the altar for naming the killings; patron of the persecuted and of El Salvador.Page coming
• St. Raymond NonnatusCesarean-born, by his name; patron of childbirth, midwives, and the falsely accused.Page coming
• St. UbaldusInvoked against obsessive fear and harassment.Page coming