Saint Martin of Tours Quote

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

– Saint Martin of Tours

Saint Martin of Tours' patronage: Against impoverishment; against poverty; alcoholism; beggars; Burgenland; cavalry; equestrians; France; geese; horse men; horses; hotel-keepers; innkeepers; Mainz, Germany; quartermasters; reformed alcoholics; riders; soldiers; tailors; vintners; wine growers; wine makers.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity Quote

I can't find words to express my happiness. Here there is no longer anything but God. He is All; He suffices and we live by Him alone.

– Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Saint of the Trinity's patronage: Sick people; Loss of parents; Against illness

Blessed John Duns Scotus Quote

O Lord our God! You are one in nature. You are one in number. Truly have you said that besides you there is no God. For though many may be called gods or thought to be gods, you alone are by nature God. You are the true God from whom, in whom and through whom all things are; you are blessed forever. Amen!

-- Blessed John Duns Scotus from De Primo Principio or A TREATISE ON GOD AS FIRST PRINCIPLE

Saint Martin de Porres Quote

Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.

– Saint Martin de Porres

Saint Martin de Porres' patronage: African-Americans; against rats; barbers; bi-racial people; hair stylists; hairdressers; hotel-keepers; innkeepers; inter-racial justice; mixed-race people; mulattoes; paupers; Peru; poor people; public education; public health; public schools; race relations; racial harmony; social justice; state schools; television.

Saint John Bosco Quote

When tempted, invoke your Angel. he is more eager to help you than you are to be helped! Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him: He trembles and flees at the sight of your Guardian Angel.

– Saint John Bosco

Saint John Bosco's patronage: Apprentices; boys; editors; Juvenile delinquents; young people; laborers; schoolchildren; students.

Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez Quote

As love is paid for in love, I must imitate Him, sharing in spirit all His sufferings. I must consider how much I owe Him and what He has done for me. Putting these sufferings between God and my soul, I must say, “What does it matter, my God, that I should endure for your love these small hardships? For you, Lord, endured so many great hardships for me.”

– Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez

Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez's patronage: city of Majorca, Spain; island of Majorca, Spain

Saint Bernardine of Siena Quote

Tribulation is the guardian of the heart. It puts man out of the way of many a fall, it urges him to fight for truth, to flee from dangerous occasions, to ask the divine assistance.

– Saint Bernardine of Siena

Saint Bernardine of Siena's patronage: Advertisers; advertising; Aquila, Italy; chest problems; Italy; Diocese of San Bernardino, California; gambling addicts; public relations personnel; public relations work; Bernalda, Italy

Saint Josemaría Escrivá Quote

Talk to the Three Persons, to God the Father, to God the Son, to God the Holy Spirit. And so as to reach the Blessed Trinity, go through Mary.

– Saint Josemaría Escrivá

Saint Josemaría Escrivá's patronage: Opus Dei

Saint Paul of the Cross Quote

I hope that God will save me through the merits of the Passion of Jesus. The more difficulties in life, the more I hope in God. By God’s grace I will not lose my soul, but I hope in His mercy.

– Saint Paul of the Cross

Saint Paul of the Cross' patronage: Passionist order; Ovada, Italy

Saint Gerard Majella Quote

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?

– Saint Gerard Majella

Saint Gerard Majella's patronage: Children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers; and Muro Lucano, Italy.

Saint Teresa of Avila Quote

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. And I clearly see that is we expect to please him and receive an abundance of his graces, God desires that these graces must come to us from the hands of Christ, through his most sacred humanity, in which God takes delight. All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding his life we find that he is the best example.

-- Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila's patronage: sickness; against headaches; against heart disease; chess; lacemakers; loss of parents; opposition of Church authorities; Požega, Croatia; those in need of grace; religious; sick people; those ridiculed for their piety; Spain; Talisay City, Cebu; those named Teresa, Theresa, Teresita, Terry, Tessa, Teresina, and Tracy.

Saint Clare of Assisi Quote

Beware of allowing yourself to be cast down by adversity or puffed up by prosperity; faith renders the soul humble in success and constant amid reverses.

-- Saint Clare of Assisi

Saint Clare of Assisi's patronage: Embroiderers; eye disease; eyes; gilders; goldsmiths; gold workers; good weather; laundry workers; needle workers; Santa Clara Indian Pueblo; telegraphs; telephones; television; television writers.

Saint Anthony of Padua Quote

How many Christians weep over temporal misfortunes, and yet are insensible to the loss of their immortal souls! They avoid going near a corpse, and yet delight daily in the company of sinners.

-- Saint Anthony of Padua

Saint Anthony of Padua's patronage: Against shipwrecks; against starvation; against starving; American Indians; amputees; animals; asses; barrenness; boatmen; Brazil; diocese of Beaumont, Texas; domestic animals; elderly people; expectant mothers; faith in the Blessed Sacrament; Ferrazzano, Italy; fishermen; harvests; horses; Lisbon, Portugal; lost articles; lower animals; mail; mariners; oppressed people; Padua, Italy; paupers; poor people; Portugal; pregnant women; sailors; seekers of lost articles; shipwrecks; starvation; starving people; sterility; swineherds; Tigua Indians; travel hostesses; travellers; watermen.

Saint Bruno of Cologne Quote

For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

–- Saint Bruno of Cologne

Saint Bruno of Cologne's patronage: diabolic possession; Ruthenia; Germany; Calabria; monastic fraternities; Carthusians; trade marks; possessed people.

Saint Faustina Kowalska Quote

Act in such a way that all those who come in contact with you will go away joyful. Sow happiness about you because you have received much from God; give, then, generously to others. They should take leave of you with their hearts filled with joy, even if they have no more than touched the hem of your garment.

– Saint Faustina Kowalska

Divine Mercy

Saint Francis of Assisi Quote

Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

– Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi's patronage: against fire; animals; Catholic Action; dying alone; ecology; environment; families; fire; lacemakers; merchants; peace; zoos; Italy; Assisi, Italy; Colorado; Sante Fe, New Mexico; archdiocese of San Francisco, California; archdiocese of Denver, Colorado; archdiocese of Sante Fe, New Mexico; diocese of Salina, Kansas.

Saint Théodore Guérin Quote

If ever this poor little Community becomes settled, it will be established on the Cross; and that is what gives me confidence and makes me hope, sometimes even against hope.

– Saint Théodore Guérin

Saint Théodore Guérin's patronage: Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette,Indiana; The Knights of Columbus of Indianapolis, Indiana; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Quote

Above all it’s the Gospels that occupy my mind when I’m at prayer; my poor soul has so many needs, and yet this is the one thing needful. I’m always finding fresh lights there, hidden and enthralling meanings.

– Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's patronage: Gardens of Vatican City; Missionaries; France; Russia; radio care-a-thons; florists and gardeners; loss of parents; the Russicum; Alaska; foreign missions; pilots; against tuberculosis; AIDS sufferers; illness; Australia; France; Diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska; Diocese of Fresno, California; Diocese of Juneau, Alaska; Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado.

Saint Vincent de Paul Quote

Saint Vincent de Paul

As it is most certain that the teaching of Christ cannot deceive, if we would walk securely, we ought to attach ourselves to it with greatest confidence and to profess openly that we live according to it, and not to the maxims of the world, which are all deceitful. This is the fundamental maxim of all Christian perfection.

– Saint Vincent de Paul

Saint Vincent de Paul's patronage: charitable societies; charities; horses; hospitals; leprosy; lost articles; prisoners; volunteers; spiritual help; Saint Vincent de Paul Societies; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory; Vincentian Service Corps; Madagascar; diocese of Richmond, Virginia; volunteers.

Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc Quote

The surrendered soul has found paradise on earth, since she enjoys that sweet peace which is part of the happiness of the elect.

– Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc

Saint Marie Victoire Therese Couderc's patronage: Sisters of the Cenacle