Patron saint

In several forms of Christianity, but especially in Roman Catholicism, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. St. Florian is the patron saint of firefighters, and St. Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, for example. Eastern Orthodoxy generally doesn't associate saints with occupations and activities, or does so to a much lesser degree.

Saints associated with occupations and activities

• Agatha - nurses, bellmaking
• Albertus Magnus - natural scientists
• Alexius - nurses
• Amand- bartenders, Boy Scouts, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners
• Ambrose of Milan - bee keepers, wax melters and refiners
• Andrew the Apostle - fish dealers, fishermen
• Anne - equestrians, stablemen
• Anthony the Great - swineherds, motorists
• Anthony of Padua - fishermen, swineherds
• Apollonia - dentists
• Augustine of Hippo - brewers, printers, and theologians
• Barbara - architects and builders, artillerymen and arsenals, prisoners
• Bartholomew the Apostle - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
• Basil the Great - hospital administrators
• Benedict of Nursia - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• Benno - fishermen
• Bernadette of Lourdes - shepherds, shepherdesses
• Bernard of Clairvaux - bee keepers, wax melters and refiners
• Bernard of Venice - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• Blaise - veterinarians, wool combers and weavers
• Botulph - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• Brigid of Ireland - dairy farms and workers, healers
• Camillus of Lellis - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
• Catherine of Alexandria - tanners, nurses
• Catherine of Siena - nursing services, nurses
• Cecilia - musicians
• Clare of Assisi - television
• Cosmas - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
• Germaine Cousin - shepherdesses
• Christopher - travellers
• Crispian - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
• Crispin - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
• Cuthbert - shepherds
• Cuthman - shepherds
• Damian - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
• Dominic de Guzman - astronomers, astronomy, falsely accused people, scientists
• Dominic of Silos - shepherds
• Drogo - shepherds
• Dymphna - mental health professionals, therapists
• Eligius - veterinarians, farriers, farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry, harness makers, goldsmiths
• Elisabeth of Hungary - hospitals, nursing services
• Erasmus of Formiae (Saint Elmo) - sailors
• Erhard of Regensburg - hospitals
• Eustachius - hunters
• Fiacre - Taxi-drivers, venereal disease sufferers, horticulturists, hemorrhoid sufferers
• Foillan - dentists, surgeons
• Francis of Assisi - animal welfare and rights organizations and workers; environment
• Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows - students, seminarians, clerics, youth
• Gemma Galgani - pharmacists
• George - soldiers, farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry, equestrians, scouts
• Rocco Gonzalez - Native American traditions
• Rene Goupil - anesthesiologists
• Hubert of Liege - hunters, furriers
• Isidore the Farmer - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• Isidore of Sevilla - computer scientists, programmers, programming
• St. Jadwiga of Poland - Queens, united Europe
• James the Greater - veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists
• James the Lesser - pharmacists
• Januarius - blood banks
• Jeanne de Chantal - forgotten people, loss of parents, parents separated from children, widows, girls
• Jerome - librarians, translators
• Joan of Arc - New Orleans, France, Girl Guides
• John the Almoner - Knights Hospitaller
• John the Apostle - tanners
• John the Baptist - farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller, Wrocław
• John of God - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
• John Baptist de la Salle - All Teachers of Youth
• John Bosco - apprentices, editors, printers/publishers
• Joseph the Betrothed - fighting Communism
• Joseph of Cupertino - air travelers and aviators
• Juan de Castillo - Native American traditions
• Jude (also known as Jude Thaddeus) - hopeless cases, policepeople and hospitals and hospital workers
• Julian the Hospitaller - shepherds
• Saint Lawrence - librarians, tanners
• Luke the Apostle - doctors, surgeons, artists
• Margaret of Antioch - nurses, pregnancy
• Martha - dieticians
• Mary Magdalen - tanners
• Magnus - fish dealers
• Albertus Magnus - chemists, medical technicians
• Martin of Tours - equestrians
• Michael the Archangel - radiologists, soldiers, paramedics, police officers
• Nicholas - children, sailors
• Nicholas of Myra - fishermen, pharmacists
• Notburga - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• Our Lady of Salambao - fishermen
• Pantaleon - doctors
• Saint Patrick - engineers
• Paul the Apostle - hospital public relations
• Peter the Apostle - popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, masons, bridge builders, cloth makers, penitents, virgins; helps against: snake bites, rabies, demonic possession, ill legs, thefts
• Phocas the Gardener - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• St. Raphael - shepherds, shepherdesses
• Raphael the Archangel - doctors, pharmacists, nurses
• Raymond of Penyafort - medical record librarians
• St. Regina - shepherdesses
• John Regis - medical social workers
• Roch - surgeons
• Alonso Rodriguez - Native American traditions
• Severus of Avranches - silk workers, wool weavers and manufacturers
• Simon - tanners
• Solange - shepherdesses
• Tomas de Aquino - students
• Thomas More - Politicians, Statesmen
• Turibius of Mogroveio - Native American rights
• Valentine - bee keepers
• Vincent de Paul - hospitals and hospital workers
• Walston - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
• Wolbodo - students
• Francis Xavier Cabrini - hospital administrators
• Yves - lawyers
• Zeno of Verona - fishermen