Saint Hilary of Poitiers Quote

For we recognize the Lord Christ as no creature, for indeed He is none such; nor as something that has been made, since He is Himself the Lord of all things that are made; but we know Him to be God, God the true generation of God the Father. All we indeed, as His goodness has thought fit, have been named and adopted as sons of God: but He is to God the Father the one, true Son, and the true and perfect birth, which abides only in the knowledge of the Father and the Son. But this only, and this alone, is our religion, to confess Him as the Son not adopted but born, not chosen but begotten.

– Saint Hilary of Poitiers

Saint Hilary of Poitiers’ patronage: Against snakes; backward children; snake bites; against rheumatism; children learning to walk; mothers; sick people; La Rochelle, France; Poitiers Lucon, France; Argusto, Italy; Verviio, Italy.

Saint John of the Cross Quote

O you souls who wish to go on with so much safety and consolation, if you knew how pleasing to God is suffering, and how much it helps in acquiring other good things, you would never seek consolation in anything; but you would rather look upon it as a great happiness to bear the Cross of the Lord.

– Saint John of the Cross

Saint John of the Cross' patronage: Contemplative life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, Spanish poets, World Youth Day 2011, Segovia, Spain, and Ta’ Xbiex, Malta

Saint Lucy of Syracuse Quote

No one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.

– Saint Lucy of Syracuse

* She is one of eight women who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.

Saint Lucy of Syracuse's patronage: Against hemorrhages; authors; blind people; blindness; cutlers; dysentery; eye disease; eye problems; glaziers; hemorrhages; laborers; martyrs; peasants; Perugia, Italy; saddlers; salesmen; stained glass workers; Syracuse, Sicily; throat infections; writers.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Quote

Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.

– Our Lady of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego

Our Lady of Guadalupe's patronage: The America’s; Mexico.

Pope Saint Damasus I Quote

He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days’ darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.

– Pope Saint Damasus I from an epitaph he wrote for himself.

Pope Saint Damasus I’s patronage: Archaeologists

Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria Quote

That which God commands seems difficult and a burden. The way is rough; you draw back; you have no desire to follow it. Yet do so and you will attain glory.

– Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria

Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria’s patronage: The Barnabite order; Angelic Sisters of St. Paul; Laity of St. Paul; Physicians

Saint Anselm of Canterbury Quote

To me, it seems to be negligence if, after confirmation in the faith, we do not study to understand that which we believe.

– Saint Anselm of Canterbury