Patron Saints

[SIZE="4"]Some patron saints and their causes:[/SIZE]
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[*]Anne (French-Canadian voyageurs),
[*]Anthony of Padua (those seeking lost persons or items),
[*] Barbara (service personnel of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces),
[*]Bernardine of Siena (advertisers),
[*]Bernard of Menthon (skiers),
[*]Cajetan (the unemployed),
[*]Cassian of Imola (stenographers),
[*]Cecilia (musicians),
[*]Columbanus (motorcyclists),
[*]Drogo of Sebourg (coffee-house keepers),
[*]Elmo (pyrotechnicians, steeplejacks, chimneysweeps and anyone working at great heights),
[*]Fiacre (taxi drivers),
[*]Gummarus (lumberjacks),
[*]Joan of Arc (soldiers),
[*]John Bosco (editors),
[*]Joseph of Arimathea (funeral directors),
[*]Joseph of Cupertino (astronauts),
[*]Kateri (ecologists),
[*]Lidwina (ice skaters),
[*]Martha (dieticians),
[*]Mary Magdalene (hairdressers, pharmacists and prostitutes),
[*]Matthew (tax collectors and perfumers, among many others),
[*]Philip (pastry chefs),
[*]Solange (shepherdesses),
[*]Ursula (orphans),
[*]Valentine (beekeepers),
[*]Vitus (comedians),
[*]Wolbodo (students),
[*]Zita (waiters).
[*]Isidore of Seville, who is celebrated by some as the patron saint of the Internet, is sometimes also accorded patronage over cartography because of the Jerusalem-centred T-O map of the world he produced, which remained influential for centuries to come. Isidore has been officially confirmed in neither capacity by the Vatican.
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There's a patron saint for everything under heaven. Check out this list which includes Saint Philip; or, check out his Patronage stats in the Wikipedia statistics side column.

I knowwww, believe it or not!

My Pottery instructor collects saint cards (because he's nuts, not because he's catholic) and his favorite is St Dymphna, patroness of nutters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymphna

I think that's a pretty good cause, so she can be my fave too

If you're lost or stranded in the mountains, you may want the help of St. Bernard. If not that St. Bernard, maybe this St. Bernard.

I am disappoint in this thread.

I pray to these Patrons:

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:drunk:

Of course, those are more, ahem, spirit than saint.

I retain a certain fondness for St. Barbara, too: patroness of really sudden journeys -- hence of gunners. Probably EOD by now too.

Gravdigr;1004019 wrote:

I am disappoint in this thread.

I pray to these Patrons:

:drunk:

Is that why you missed out the "ed" from "disappoint"? ;)

Don't forget St Francis of Assisi, patron saint of peace amongst other things.

And probably of rehearsal.

St. Vidicon of Cathode

Squawk;1008309 wrote:

Is that why you missed out the "ed" from "disappoint"? ;)

That's done here in the Cellar out of tradition.

"This thread is full of disappoint."

Pete Zicato;1008410 wrote:

St. Vidicon of Cathode

I read that as St. Vicodin...:p:

Gravdigr;1008419 wrote:

I read that as St. Vicodin...:p:

Probably a saint for that too.