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Egwin (d. 717)
Leadership
Egwin was bishop of Worcester in England from 693 to 711, and the probable founder of Evesham Abbey, one of the great Benedictine houses of medieval England. As with many other saints from his time, the stories about him were written years after his death. Popular taste demanded fabulous tales full of magic and mystery. We do him no service to repeat such material here.
Egwin died in 717 and was buried at Evesham Abbey.
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Melania and Pinian (ca. 383–438)
Faith at work
Melania was born in Rome to an extraordinarily wealthy family, about the year 383. She and her husband, Pinian, opened their home to others and gave their money away to the poor. They traveled to Roman northern Africa and became friends with Augustine (August 28). Their journeys eventually took them to Jerusalem in 417. In 431, a year after Pinian died, Melania founded a nunnery on the Mount of Olives, where her own life came to an end six years later.
Acknowledgments
My gratitude for the labor of Lil Copan at Paraclete Press is profound. This book is the offspring of her mind and spirit. Lil conceived the volume and offered invaluable guidance during the many months of its production. I would also like to thank my wife, Anna, for consulting with me regarding the complex history surrounding many of the saints, and for reading and correcting the original draft.
Patron Saints
Condensed list of saints included in this volume
Abandoned people: Germaine Cousin
Abuse victims: Adelaide, Rita of Cascia
Accountants: Matthew
Advertisers: Bernardino of Sienna
Agricultural workers: Isidore the Farmer
Air passengers and aviators: Joseph of Cupertino, Thérèse of Lisieux
Amputees: Anthony of Padua
Animals and birds: Francis of Assisi, Antony of Egypt
Apothecaries: Nicholas
Apple Orchards: Charles Borromeo
Apprentices: John Bosco
Archaeologists: Jerome
Archers: George, Sebastian
Architects: Thomas
Artists: Luke
Astronomers: Dominic
Athletes: Sebastian
Authors: Francis de Sales
Bankers: Matthew
Basket makers: Antony of Egypt
Beekeepers: Ambrose, Bernard, Modomnoc O’Neil
Beggars: Martin of Tours, Benedict Joseph Labre
Bishops: Ambrose, Charles Borromeo
Blacksmiths: Brigid of Ireland, Dunstan
Blind: Dunstan, Thomas
Blood banks: Januarius
Bookkeepers: Matthew
Bowel disorders: Bonaventure
Boys: Nicholas
Bricklayers: Stephen
Bridgebuilders: Benezet of Avignon
Burns: John
Bursars: Joseph
Canonists: Raymund of Peñafort
Carpenters: Joseph
Castle-chapels: George
Catechists: Charles Borromeo,
Childless people: Catherine of Genoa
Children: Nicholas
Chimney sweeps: Florian
Coachmen: Richard of Chichester
Conservationists: Francis of Assisi
Convulsions: John the Baptist, Willibrord
Cripples: Giles
Deacons: Stephen
Death of Children: Elizabeth Ann Seton
Desperate cases: Jude, Rita of Cascia
Disasters: Genevieve
Doctors: Luke, Cosmas and Damian
Ecologists: Francis of Assisi
Editors: Antony Claret, John Bosco
Elderly people: Anthony of Padua
Evangelists: Paul
Fear of snakes: Patrick
Firefighters: Catherine of Siena,
Florian, John of God
Fishermen, anglers: Andrew, Peter, Nicholas
Florists: Rose of Lima
Foot problems: Peter
Fugitives: Brigid of Ireland
Funeral directors: Joseph of Arimathea
Gardeners: Rose of Lima
Girls: Agnes, Nicholas
Goldsmiths: Dunstan
Hairdressers (women): Mary Magdalene
Hairdressers (men): Martin de Porres, Cosmas and Damian
Headache sufferers: Stephen
Heart patients: John of God
Hermits: Antony, Giles
Homeless: Benedict Joseph Labre
Hopeless cases: Jude
Horses: Giles
Hospitals: Camillus de Lellis, John of God
Husbandmen: George
Infantrymen: Maurice
In-law problems: Elizabeth Ann Seton
Insect bites: Mark, Narcissus
Internet: Isidore of Seville
Jealousy, victims of: Elizabeth of Portugal
Journalists: Francis de Sales
Kings: Henry II
Knights: George
Lawyers: Hilary, Thomas More
Lepers: Giles
Librarians: Jerome
Longevity: Peter
Loss of parents: Elizabeth Ann Seton
Lost articles: Antony of Padua
Lovers: Valentine
Mail: Anthony of Padua
Married women: Monica
Merchants: Nicholas
Midwives: Panteleon
Missionaries: Francis Xavier, Thérèsa of Lisieux
Missionary bishops: Paul
Monks: John the Baptist, Benedict
Musicians: Cecilia
Mystics and mystical theologians: John of the Cross
Nail makers: Clodoald
Naturalists: Albert the Great
Navigators: Brendan the Navigator, Nicholas
Net makers: Peter
Nuns: Scholastica
Nurses: Camillus of Lellis, John of God
Opposition of Church authorities: Elizabeth Ann Seton
Orphans: Anthony of Padua
Painters: Luke
Parish priests: John-Baptiste Vianney
Pawnbrokers: Nicholas
Penitents: Mary Magdalene
People ridiculed for piety: Elizabeth Ann Seton
Perfumers: Nicholas
Pilgrims: James
Poets: John of the Cross
Politicians: Thomas More
Poor: Antony of Padua, Martin de Porres, Nicholas, Vincent de Paul
Popes: Peter, Gregory the Great
Preachers: John Chrysostom, Bernardino of Siena
Printers: Augustine, John of God
Publishers: John
Race relations: Martin de Porres, Peter Claver
Retreatants: Ignatius of Loyola
Rheumatism sufferers: Philip Neri
Salesmen: Lucy of Syracuse
Sailors: Nicholas, Francis of Paola
Scholars: Venerable Bede, Jerome
Scientists: Albert the Great
Scouts: George
Secretaries: Mark
Sick People: Camillus de Lellis
Singers: Cecilia
Slavery: Peter Claver
Soldiers: George
Spiritual help: Vincent de Paul
Starving: Antony of Padua
Students: Thomas Aquinas
Surgeons: Cosmas and Damian, Luke
Tax collectors: Matthew
Teachers: John Baptist de la Salle
Telephones: Claire of Assisi
Theologians: John, Augustine,
Thomas Aquinas, Alphonsus Liguori
Throat sufferers: Blaise of Sebaste
Tourists: Francis Xavier
Unhappily married women: Rita of Cascia
Widows: Elizabeth Ann Seton, Frances of Rome, Monica, Paula
Writers: John, Francis de Sales
Youth: John Bosco
Zoos: Francis of Assisi
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Index
Abbo of Fleury
Abraham Kidunaia
Acca
Adelaide
Adrian and Eubulus
Agnes
Agnes of Assisi
Agostina Livia Pietrantoni
Agostino Roscelli
Alban
Albert the Great
Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga
Alexander of Alexandria
All Saints
Alphege
Alphonsus Liguori
Amandus of Bordeaux
Ambrose
Amphilochius
Anatolius of Alexandria
Andrew
Andrew Bobola
Angela of the Cross
Anne of St. Bartholomew
Anselm
Anthony of Egypt
Anthony of Lérins
Anthony of Padua
Anthony Zaccaria
Antony Claret
Aquila and Priscilla
Arnold Janssen
Asicus
Athanasius
Augustine
Augustine of Canterbury
Aurelius of Carthage
Barnabas
Bartholomew of Farne
Basil the Great
Bathild
Benedetta Cambiagio
Benedict Joseph Labre
Benedict of Aniane
Benedict of Nursia
Benezet of Avignon
Benignus of Armagh
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Corleone
Bernardino of Siena
Blaise of Sebaste
Bonaventure
Boniface
Boniface IV
Boniface of Lausanne
Braulio of Saragossa
Brendan the Navigator
Brian Lacey
Bridget of Sweden
Brigid of Ireland
Bruno
Callistus I
Camillus de Lellis
Canute IV
Casimir of Poland
Catherine of Genoa
Catherine of Siena
Cecilia
Cedd
Charles Borromeo
Christina Ciccarelli
Christina of Tuscany/Tyre
Chromatius of Aquileia
Claire of Assisi
Clodoald
Colette
Columba of Iona
Columbanus
Conversion of Paul
Corbinian
Cornelius and Cyprian
Cosmas and Damian
Cuthbert Mayne
Cyprian of Carthage
Cyril of Alexandria
Cyril of Jerusalem
Damien de Veuster
Daniel Comboni
David of Scotland
David of Wales
Deogratias
Dominic
Dominic of Silos
Dubricius
Dunstan
Edigio Maria of St. Joseph
Edith Stein
Edmund
Edward the Confessor
Egwin
Eleutherius of Spoleto
Eligius of Noyon
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth of Portugal
Elizabeth of the Trinity
Enrique De Osso Y Cervello
Eucherius of Orléans
Euphrasia
Euplus
Eusebius of Vercelli
Eustathius of Antioch
Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Fillan of Glendochart
Finan of Lindisfarne
First Roman Martyrs
Flannan
Florian
Frances of Rome
Francis (Gabriel) Possenti
Francis Caracciolo
Francis de Sales
Francis di Girolamo
Francis of Assisi
Francis of Paola
Francis Xavier
Frumentius and Aedisius
Gall
Gaudentius of Brescia
Genevieve
Genoveva Torres Morales
George
Gerard of Brogne
Gerard Sagredo
Germaine Cousin
Germanus of Paris
Gildas the Wise
Giles
Giovanni Calabria
Gregory the Great
Guy of Anderlecht
Guy of Pomposa
Hannibal Di Francia
Henry II
Hilary of Aries
Hilary of Poitiers
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegund
Honoratus of Arles
Hormisdas
Hugh of Grenoble
Hugh of Lincoln
Hypatius of Chalcedon
Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of Loyola
Illtyd
Irenaeus
Irenaeus of Sirmium
Isidore of Seville
Isidore the Farmer
James
James Intercisus
James Salomone
James the Less
Jane de Chantal
Januarius of Benevento
Jean-Gabriel Perboyre
Jerome
Joan of Arc
Joan of the Cross
John
John Baptist de La Salle
John Bosco
John Chrysostom
John de Britto
John de Ribera
John du Lau and Companions
John Eudes
John Francis Regis
John I
John of Avila
John of Dukla
John of Egypt
John of God
John of Sahagun
John of the Cross
John Ogilvie
John the Almsgiver
John the Baptist
John-Baptiste Vianney
José Manyanet y Vives
Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer
Joseph
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus
Joseph Calasanz
Joseph of Cupertino
Joseph Pignatelli
Josephine Bakhita
Juan Grande Roman
Jude
Julian and Basilissa
Julian of Norwich
Julie Billiart
Katherine Drexel
Korean Martyrs
Laurence
Laurence of Brindisi
Leo the Great
Leobin
Leodegar
Leonard Murialdo
Leonie Aviat
Lioba
Louis Bertrand
Louise de Marillac
Lucy Filippini
Lucy of Syracuse
Luigi Orione
Luke
Lydia
Macrina the Younger
Magdalen of Canossa
Malchus of Khalkis
Marcellin Joseph Benoit Champagnat
Marcellinus and Peter
Marcellus the Centurion
Margaret of Cortona
Margaret of Scotland
Margaret Ward
Maria Corsini
Maria de Jesús Sacramentado Venegas de la Torre
Maria Goretti
Maria Josefa
Maria Maravillas de Jesús Pidal y Chico de Guzmán
Martin de Porres
Martin I
Martin of Tours
Martyrs of Vietnam
Mary Faustina Kowalska
Mary Magdalene
Mary McKillop
Mary of Oignies
Mary Soledad
Mary-Crucifixa di Rosa
Mary-Dominica Mazzarello
Matthew
Maurice and Companions
Maximilian
Maximilian Kolbe
Mechtild of Hackeborn
Melania and Pinian
Meletius of Antioch
Miguel Cordero
Modomnoc O’Neil
Monica
Montanus and Lucius
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Narcissus of Jerusalem
Nathanael Bartholomew
Nativity of Christ
Nemesius of Alexandria
Nicholas
Nicholas of Tolentino
Notburga of Eben
Odo of Cluny
Olaf Tryggvason
Oliver Plunket
Onesimus
Osanna of Mantua
Osyth
Pachomius
Padre Pio
Pancras
Panteleon
Paola Elisabetta
Paschal Baylou
Paschasius Radbert
Patrick
Paul
Paul Miki and Companions
Paula
Paula Montal
Pauline
Pavel Gojdic
Pelagia the Penitent
Peter
Peter Canisius
Peter Chanel
Peter Claver
Peter Damian
Peter de Betancurt
Peter Fourier
Peter of Alcantara
Peter of Atroa
Petroc
Petronax
Philastrius
Philip
Philip Benizi
Philip Neri
Philip of Jesus
Pius V
Polycarp
Pontian and Hippolytus
Prosper of Aquitaine
Prudentius Galindo
Rafqa Petronilla al-Rayès
Raymund of Peñafort
Richard of Chichester
Richard Rolle
Richard Thirkeld
Rita of Cascia
Romanus and Lupicinus
Romaric
Romuald
Rose of Lima
Rose of Viterbo
Rupert of Salzburg
Sabas of Jerusalem
Salome
Samson
Sava of Serbia
Scholastica
Sebastian of Rome
Sergius of Radonezh
Servulus
Sigfrid
Simeon and the Presentation of the Lord
Simeon Barsabae and Companions
Simon the Zealot
Simplician
Stanislaus Szczepanowsky
Stephen
Stephen of Hungary
Tarasius
Teresa of Avila
Teresa of Los Andes
Teresa Verzeri
Theodore of Sykeon
Theotonius
Thérèse of Lisieux
Thomas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Becket
Thomas More
Thomas of Cori
Thorfinn
Titus Brandsma
Turdibius of Mongrovejo
Tutilo
Tychon of Amathus
Umile da Bisignano
Valentine
Venerable Bede
Veronica
Victoria Rasoamanarivo
Victorinus of Pettau
Victricius
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