Saint Hilary of Poitiers Quote

When I look at your heavens, according to my own lights, with these weak eyes of mine, I am certain with reservation that they are your heavens. The stars circle in the heavens, reappear year after year, each with a function and service to fulfill. And though I do not understand them, I know that you, O God, are in them.

– Saint Hilary of Poitiers

Saint Hilary of Poitiers' patronage: against rheumatism; against snakes; against snake bites; backward children; children learning to walk; mothers; sick people; La Rochelle, France; Poitiers Luçon, France; Argusto, Italy; and Vervio, Italy.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great Quote

He who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps.

-- Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Pope Saint Gregory the Great's patronage: against gout; against plague; choir boys; educators; England; Kercem, Malta; diocese of Legazpi, Philippines; masons; Montone, Italy; musicians; Order of Knights of Saint Gregory; papacy; Popes; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; schoolchildren; singers; stone masons; stonecutters; students; teachers; The pontificate; and West Indies.

Saint John of God Quote

Whenever I see so many poor brothers and neighbours of mine suffering beyond their strength and overwhelmed with so many physical or mental ills which I cannot alleviate, then I become exceedingly sorrowful; but I trust in Christ, who knows my heart. And so I say, “Woe to the man who trusts in men rather than in Christ.”

-- Saint John of God from a letter

Saint John of God's patronage: against alcoholism; against bodily ills; against sickness; alcoholics; bookbinders; booksellers; dying people; firefighters; heart patients; hospitals; hospital workers; nurses; publishers; printers; sick people; the mentally ill; and Tultepec, Mexico.

Blessed Brother Solomon Le Clerq Quote

As for us, we hold to what we believed ten and twenty years ago; to what our forefathers believed one hundred years ago, and one thousand years ago, and to that which the whole Catholic world has always believed. –

-- Blessed Brother Solomon Le Clerq