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.

A

• Adrian of Nicomedia – arms dealers, butchers, guards, soldiers^[1]
• Agatha – bakers, bellmaking, nurses^[2]
• Albertus Magnus – 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 – bee keepers, beggars,^[7] candle-makers,^[8] chandlers,^[9] wax-melters and refiners
• Anastasius the Fuller – fullers^[10]
• Anastasia of Sirmium – weavers, healers, martyrs, exorcists^[11]
• Andrew the Apostle – fishmongers, fishermen^[4]
• Andrew Kim – clergy of Korea
• Ann – miners,^[4] mothers,^[9] equestrians,^[12] cabinet makers,^[9] homemakers,^[11] stablemen, French-Canadian voyageurs, and sailors
• Ansovinus – gardeners
• Anthony Mary Claret – weavers^[7]
• Anthony the Abbot – basket-makers,^[4] gravediggers, butchers,^[7] swineherds and motorists
• Anthony of Padua – those seeking lost items or people,^[4] nomadic travelers, brush makers, women seeking a husband
• Antipas – dentists
• Apollonia – dentists ^[4]
• Arnold of Soissons – brewers
• Arnulph – millers
• Augustine of Hippo – printers,^[7] brewers and theologians^[11]

B

• Barbara – miners, artillerymen, military engineers and firemen, Italian marines,^[4] architects, builders,^[11] foundry workers, fireworks makers,^[10] servicemen of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces,^[13] mathematicians,^[14] geoscientist, stonemasons
• Bartholomew the Apostle – leatherworkers, plasterers,^[11] tanners, trappers,^[15] curriers
• Basil the Great – hospital administrators^[16]
• Basilides - Italian prison officers^[4]
• Basilissa - nursing mothers ^[4]
• Benedict of Nursia – farmers, farmhands, engineers, architects, Italian speleologists,^[4] students,^[11] husbandry, heraldry and officers of arms
• Bénézet – bridge-builders^[11]
• Benno – fishermen
• Bernadette of Lourdes – shepherds^[7]
• Bernardine of Feltre - pawnbrokers, bankers^[4]
• Bernardine of Siena – advertisers^[4]
• 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
• Bernward of Hildesheim – architects
• Blaise – veterinarians,^[11] wool combers and weavers,^[17] town criers
• Boethius – philosophy
• Bona of Pisa – flight attendants,^[4] travelers, specifically couriers, guides, pilgrims
• Botulph – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• 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,^[11] nurses
• 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,^[11] drivers,^[12] surfers, athletes, pilots
• Clare of Assisi – theatre performers,^[7] embroiderers,^[11] gilders,^[21] laundry workers, goldsmiths
• Claude – sculptors, secretaries^[7]
• Clement – marble-workers,^[11] 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^[11]
• 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 – coffee house keepers, coffee house owners,^[23] shepherds
• Dunstan – blacksmiths,^[7] goldsmiths, musicians,^[11] locksmiths^[12]
• Dymphna – mental health professionals, psychiatrists, therapists^[14]

E

• Edward the Confessor – kings
• Eligius – metal-workers, jewelers,^[11] mechanics, taxi drivers,^[12] farriers,^[10] 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
• Erasmus of Formiae or Elmo – sailors,^[7] pyrotechnicians,^[11] steeplejacks, chimney sweeps and anyone who works at great heights
• Ephrem the Syrian – spiritual directors and spiritual leaders
• Eustachius – hunters,^[7] trappers,^[15] firefighters

F

• Ferdinand III – engineers^[24]
• Fiacre – taxi-drivers, veterinarians, 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]
• Francis de Sales – writers/authors,^[7] journalists^[11]
• Francis of Assisi – ecologists,^[11] merchants,^[9] animal welfare, and rights workers^[25]
• Francis Caracciolo – chefs

G

• Archangel Gabriel – communications workers, postal workers, broadcasters, messengers, radio/television workers, radiologists,^[7] diplomats, ambassadors, emergency dispatchers, police dispatchers
• Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows – students, seminarians, clerics, a society exists whose goal is to have Gabriel declared the patron saint of handgunners
• 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,^[11] butchers, cavalry,^[9] soldiers,^[11] Crusaders, equestrians, horsemen, husbandry, knights, saddle makers, shepherds, Teutonic Knights (policemen and firefighters in Brazil)
• Germaine Cousin – shepherdesses^[26]
• Giles – beggars, spur makers^[27]
• Gregory the Great – teachers
• Gottschalk – linguists, princes, translators
• Gummarus – lumberjacks
• René Goupil – nurse anesthetists ^[28]

H

• Hervé – bards, musicians
• Homobonus – businessmen, tailors, and clothworkers
• Honorius of Amiens (Honoratus) – bakers, confectioners, bakers of holy wafers, candle-makers, florists, flour merchants, oil refiners, and pastry chefs
• Hubertus – hunters, furriers
• Hunna – laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen

I

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

J

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

K

• Kateri – ecologists, environmentalists, thomasites

L

• Lawrence – librarians,^[19] archivists, students, tanners, cooks, comedians.
• Leodegar – millers^[32]
• Lidwina – ice skaters
• Luke the Evangelist – doctors, surgeons, artists, painters, notaries

M

• Madeleine Sophie Barat - school girls
• Marcellin Champagnat – education and teachers
• Margaret of Antioch – nurses
• Martha – dieticians, cooks
• Mary Magdalene – tanners, hairdressers, pharmacists
• Magnus of Avignon – fish dealers, fishmongers
• Albertus Magnus – chemists, medical technicians
• Macarius of Unzha, Venerable – craftsmen, merchants, travelers^[33]
• Malo – pig-keepers
• Martin of Tours – soldiers
• Matthew – accountants, tax collectors, bankers, bookkeepers, joiners, custom agents, security guards, perfumers
• Maturinus – comic actors, jesters, clowns, sailors (in Brittany), tinmen (in Paris)^[34] and of plumbers.^[35]
• Maurice and Lydia – dyers
• Maurice – infantrymen
• Michael the Archangel – soldiers, paramedics, paratroopers, police officers, security officers

N

• Nicholas of Myra – sailors, fishermen, merchants, pharmacists, archers, pawnbrokers, lawyers in Paris bar
• Nicholas of Tolentine – Mariners
• Notburga – farmers, farmhands, husbandry

O

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

P

• Pantaleon – doctors, midwives, physicians
• 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, bridge builders, cloth makers
• Peter of Alcantara – guards
• Peter Damian – traceurs/freerunners
• Phocas the Gardener – farmers, farmhands, husbandry
• Pope John XXIII – Papal delegates
• Pope Celestine V – bookbinders
• Piran – tinners, tin miners
• Philip – Special Forces

Q

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

R

• Raphael the Archangel – doctors, pharmacists, nurses, shepherds, matchmakers, travelers^[36]
• Raymond Nonnatus – midwives, obstetricians
• Raymond of Penyafort – medical record librarians, Canon lawyers
• Rebekah – physicists
• Regina – shepherdesses
• John Regis – medical social workers
• Reinold – Stonemasons
• 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

• Tatiana of Rome – students
• Theobald of Provins – Farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, beltmakers, charcoal-burners
• Thérèse of Lisieux – florists, aviators, missionaries
• Thomas – architects, politicians
• 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
• Venerius the Hermit – lighthouse keepers^[37]
• Veronica – laundry workers; photographers^[38]
• Vincent of Saragossa – winemakers
• Vincent de Paul – hospital workers
• Vincent Ferrer – builders
• Vitus – comedians, dancers

W

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

X

• Frances Xavier Cabrini – hospital administrators

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

References