List of patron saints by occupation and activity

This is a list of patron saints of occupations and activities or of groups of people with a common occupation or activity.

Contents

• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Adrian of Nicomedia – arms dealers, butchers, guards, soldiers[1]
• Agatha – bakers, bellmaking, nurses[2]
• Albertus Magnus – medical technicians, philosophers, scientists, students, natural scientists[3]
• Alexander of Comana – charcoal-burners[4]
• Alexius – belt makers and nurses[5]
• Aloysius Gonzaga – Catholic students, Jesuit scholastics[6]
• Amand – bartenders, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners,[4]
• Ambrose of Milan – beekeepers, beggars,[7] candle-makers,[8] chandlers,[9] wax-melters and refiners
• Anastasia of Sirmium – weavers, healers, martyrs, exorcists[10]
• Anastasius the Fuller – fullers[11]
• Andrew Kim – clergy of Korea
• Andrew the Apostle – cattlemen, butchers, farm workers; fishmongers, fishermen[4]
• Anne – miners,[4] mothers,[9] equestrians,[12] cabinet makers,[9] homemakers,[10] teachers, stablemen, French-Canadian voyageurs and sailors
• Ansovinus – gardeners
• Anthony Mary Claret – weavers[7]
• Anthony of Padua – those seeking lost items or people,[4] nomadic travelers, brush makers, women seeking a husband
• Anthony the Abbot – basket-makers,[4] gravediggers, butchers,[7] swineherds and motorists
• Antipas – dentists
• Apollonia – dentists[4]
• Arnold of Soissons – brewers
• Arnulph – millers
• Augustine of Hippo – printers,[7] brewers and theologians[10]

B

• Barbara – miners, artillerymen, military engineers and firefighters, Italian marines,[4] architects, builders,[10] foundry workers, fireworks makers,[11] service-men of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces,[13] mathematicians,[14] geoscientist, stonemasons
• Bartholomew the Apostle – leatherworkers, plasterers,[10] tanners, trappers,[15] curriers
• Basil the Great – hospital administrators[16]
• Basilides – Italian prison officers[4]
• Basilissa – nursing mothers[4]
• Bede – historians and English writers
• Benedict of Nursia – farmers, farmhands, engineers, architects, Italian speleologists,[4] students,[10] husbandry, heraldry and officers of arms
• Bénézet – bridge-builders[10]
• Benno – fishermen
• Bernadette of Lourdes – shepherds[7]
• Bernard of Clairvaux – bee keepers, chandlers, advertisers,[9] wax melters and refiners[17]
• Bernard of Menthon – mountaineers, skiers[4]
• Bernard of Vienne – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Bernardine of Feltre – pawnbrokers, bankers[4]
• Bernardine of Siena – advertisers[4]
• Bernward of Hildesheim – architects
• Blaise – veterinarians,[10] wool combers and weavers,[17] town criers
• Boethius – philosophy
• Bona of Pisa – flight attendants,[4] travelers, specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims
• Botolph – travellers, sailors, farmers.
• Brendan the Navigator – sailors,[7] navigators,[12] mariners, seafarers, those traveling by sea
• Brigid of Ireland – dairy workers, scholars, nuns,[7] medicine/healers

C

• Cajetan – unemployed, gamblers, odd lot dealers, and of job seekers
• Camillus of Lellis – nurses,[4] hospital workers[18]
• Cassian of Imola – shorthand writers, stenographers,[4] school teachers, parish clerks
• Catherine of Alexandria – tanners, librarians,[19] students, philosophers,[7] secretaries, scribes, stenographers, preachers,[10] nurses, wheelwrights and mechanics

• Catherine of Siena – jurors,[12] Italian nurses[20]
• Cecilia – musicians[7]
• Charles Borromeo – Catechists, seminarians[7]
• Christina the Astonishing – millers, psychiatrists[12]
• Christopher – travelers, bookbinders, gardeners, mariners,[10] drivers,[12] surfers, athletes, pilots
• Clare of Assisi – theatre performers,[7] embroiderers,[10] gilders,[21] laundry workers, goldsmiths
• Claude – sculptors, secretaries[7]
• Clement – marble-workers,[10] tanners, mariners,[12] stonecutters
• Columbanus – motorcyclists
• Cosmas – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers[7]
• Crispin – tanners, shoemakers, cobblers, leatherworkers, curriers, saddle-makers
• Cuthbert – shepherds
• Cuthman – shepherds

D

• Damian – doctors, pharmacists, surgeons, barbers[10]
• Dismas – undertakers[22]
• Dominic – astronomers, astronomy,[12] scientists
• Dominic de la Calzada – civil engineers
• Dominic of Silos – shepherds
• Dorothea of Caesarea – florists,[7] horticulture, brewers
• Drogo of Sebourg – coffee house keepers, coffee house owners,[23] shepherds
• Dunstan – blacksmiths,[7] goldsmiths, musicians,[10] locksmiths[12]
• Dymphna – mental health professionals, psychiatrists, therapists[14]

E

• Edward the Confessor – kings
• Eligius – metal-workers, jewelers,[10] mechanics, taxi drivers,[12] farriers,[11] harness makers,[16] numismatists,[20] Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers soldiers, veterinarians, farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Elisabeth of Hungary – bakers,[7] beggars,[9] nursing services[20]
• Elizabeth Seton – sailors
• Ephrem the Syrian – spiritual directors and spiritual leaders
• Erasmus of Formiae or Elmo – sailors,[7] pyrotechnicians,[10] steeplejacks, chimney sweeps and anyone who works at great heights
• Eustachius – hunters,[7] trappers,[15] firefighters

F

• Ferdinand III – engineers[24]
• Fiacre – gardeners, florists, herbalists, ploughboys, hosiers, pewterers, tilemakers, box-makers, taxi-drivers, drivers, gardeners,[7] horticulturists[16]
• Florian – firefighters,[7] chimney sweeps[12]
• Foillan – dentists, surgeons, truss-makers, children's nurses
• Frances of Rome – automobile drivers[7]
• Frances Xavier Cabrini – hospital administrators, immigrants
• Francis Caracciolo – chefs
• Francis de Sales – writers/authors,[7] journalists[10]
• Francis of Assisi – ecologists,[10] merchants,[9] animal welfare, and rights workers[25]
• Francis Xavier - missionary

G

• Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows – students, seminarians, clerics
• Gabriel the Archangel – communications workers, postal workers, broadcasters, messengers, radio/television workers, radiologists,[7] diplomats, ambassadors, emergency dispatchers, police dispatchers
• Gangulphus – tanners, shoemakers
• Gemma Galgani – students, pharmacists
• Genesius – actors, comedians, clowns, dancers, theatrical performers of all kinds, also attorneys, barristers, lawyers
• George – agricultural workers,[9] archers, armourers,[24] Boy Scouts,[10] butchers, cavalry,[9] soldiers,[10] Crusaders, equestrians, horsemen, husbandry, knights, saddle makers, shepherds, Teutonic Knights (policemen and firefighters in Brazil)
• Gerard Majella – Patron of Expectant Mothers; safe delivery
• Germaine Cousin – shepherdesses[26]
• Gerolamo Emiliani - orphans
• Giles – beggars, spur makers[27]
• Gottschalk – linguists, princes, translators
• Gregory the Great – teachers
• Gummarus – lumberjacks

H

• Helen of Constantinople – archeologist
• Homobonus – businessmen, tailors, and clothworkers
• Honorius of Amiens (Honoratus) – bakers, confectioners, bakers of altar bread, candle-makers, florists, flour merchants, oil refiners, and pastry chefs
• Hubertus – hunters, furriers
• Hunna – laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen

I

• Ignatius of Loyola – Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Educators and Education.
• Isidore of Seville – computer scientists, software engineers, computer programmers, computer technicians, computer users, schoolchildren, students
• Isidore the Farmer – farmers, farmhands, husbandry, manual laborers

J

• Jadwiga of Poland – queens
• James, son of Alphaeus – pharmacists
• James, son of Zebedee – veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists, traveler, pilgrimage
• Jerome – librarians,[19] translators, spectacle makers
• Joan of Arc – soldiers
• John Baptist de la Salle – Christian teachers, educators[28]
• John Berchmans – altar servers
• John Bosco – Apprentices, editors, printers/publishers
• John Gualbert – foresters
• John of Capistrano – jurists
• John of Damascus – makers of images of the crucifix
• John of God – hospital workers, nurses, booksellers
• John Regis – medical social workers
• John the Almoner – Knights Hospitaller
• John the Apostle – tanners
• John the Baptist – farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller
• John the Evangelist – editors, authors, art dealers, tanners, and theologians
• John Vianney – priests
• Joseph – cabinetmakers, carpenters, craftsmen, laborers, traveler, workers, and working people[29]
• Joseph of Arimathea – funeral directors,[30] tinsmiths
• Joseph of Cupertino – air travelers, aviators, astronauts, test takers, poor students
• Jude (also known as Jude Thaddeus) – police officers, children, hospital workers[31]
• Julian the Hospitaller – shepherds, boatmen
• Justa and Rufina – potters

K

• Kateri – ecologists, environmentalists, thomasites

L

• Laura of Langley – marketeers
• Lawrence – librarians,[19] archivists, students, tanners, cooks, comedians
• Leodegar – millers[32]
• Lidwina – ice skaters
• Lucy – authors, cutlers, glaziers, labourers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers.[33]
• Luke the Evangelist – doctors, surgeons, artists, painters, notaries

M

• Macarius of Unzha, Venerable – craftsmen, merchants, travelers[34]
• Madeleine Sophie Barat – school girls
• Magnus of Avignon – fish dealers, fishmongers
• Malo – pig-keepers
• Marcellin Champagnat – education and teachers
• Margaret of Antioch – nurses
• Martha – dieticians, cooks
• Martin of Tours – soldiers
• Mary Magdalene – tanners, hairdressers, pharmacists.
• Matthew – accountants, tax collectors, bankers, bookkeepers, joiners, custom agents, security guards, perfumers
• Matthias – carpenters, tailors
• Maturinus – comic actors, jesters, clowns, sailors (in Brittany), tinmen (in Paris)[35] and of plumbers.[36]
• Maurice – infantrymen
• Maurice and Lydia – dyers
• Medard – meteorologists, field workers
• Michael the Archangel – soldiers, paramedics, paratroopers, police officers, security officers

N

• Nicholas of Myra – sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, the falsely accused, brewers, pawnbrokers and students in various cities and countries around Europe
• Nicholas of Tolentine – mariners
• Notburga – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

O

• Our Lady of Loreto – aviators
• Our Lady of Salambao – fishermen

P

• Pantaleon – doctors, midwives, physicians
• Patrick – engineers, paralegals
• Paul the Apostle – hospital public relations
• Peter the Apostle – popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, bridge builders, cloth makers
• Peter of Alcantara – guards
• Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur – homeless and of those who serve the sick
• Philip – Special Forces, pastry chefs
• Phocas the Gardener – farmers, farmhands, gardeners, husbandry, sailors
• Phoebe the Deaconess- female deacons
• Piran – tinners, tin miners, pastie-makers, cream-clotters
• Pope Celestine V – bookbinders
• Pope John XXIII – Papal delegates

Q

• Quentin – bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, surgeons

R

• Raphael the Archangel – doctors, pharmacists, nurses, shepherds, matchmakers, travelers[37]
• Raymond Nonnatus – midwives, obstetricians
• Raymond of Penyafort – medical record librarians, Canon lawyers
• Rebekah – physicists
• Regina – shepherdesses
• Reinold – Stonemasons
• René Goupil – anaesthesiologists,[38] nurse anesthetists[39]
• Robert Bellarmine – Catechists[7]
• Roch – surgeons, tile-makers, second-hand dealers, gravediggers
• Rose of Lima – embroiderers, gardeners

S

• Sebastian – soldiers, athletes
• Severus of Avranches – silk and wool makers, drapers; milliners and hatters
• Simon – tanners
• Solange – shepherdesses
• Stephen – bricklayers, casketmakers, deacons, altar servers

T

• Tarcisius – altar servers
• Tatiana of Rome – students
• Teresa of Ávila – lace workers, chess
• Teresa of Calcutta – missionaries
• Theobald of Provins – farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, beltmakers, charcoal-burners
• Thérèse of Lisieux ( The Little Flower ) – florists, aviators, missionaries
• Thomas the Apostle – architects, politicians, land surveyors
• Thomas Aquinas – students, teachers, academics
• Thomas Becket – diocesan priests
• Thomas More – politicians, statesmen, lawyers, civil servants, court clerks

U

• Urban of Langres – vine-growers, vine-dressers, gardeners, vintners, and coopers
• Ursula – archers, orphans, students

V

• Valentine – beekeeping
• Verena – lighthouse keepers[40]
• Veronica – laundry workers; photographers[41]
• Vincent de Paul – volunteers[42]
• Vincent Ferrer – builders
• Vincent of Saragossa – winemakers, vinegarmakers
• Vitus – comedians, dancers

W

• Walstan – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Winnoc – millers
• Wolbodo – students
• Wolfgang of Regensburg – woodworkers, woodcarvers

X

Y

• Yves – lawyers

Z

• Zeno of Verona – fishermen
• Zita – domestic servants, waiters

See also

• Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers
• Patron saints of places
• Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Saint symbolism

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