The story behind each name is below
Patron of apprentices, editors and publishers, schoolchildren, magicians, and juvenile delinquents Read More...
Blessed Stanley Rother Gave His Heart to God, Even Unto Death. In 2016, Pope Francis named Father Rother a martyr of the faith, the first martyr from the United States, and in 2017 he became the first beatified U.S.-born priest. Learn more...
Patron of Mercy Learn more...
Adoption pending.
Patron Saint of Students, Pharmacists, against temptations, against the death of parents, against tuberculosis. Learn more...
Patron of the Missions. Learn more...
Patron of architects. Learn more...
Patron of Sudan. Historians believe that sometime in February 1877, Josephine was kidnapped by Arab slave traders. Although she was just a child, she was forced to walk barefoot over 600 miles to a slave market in El Obeid.
Patron of mothers, physicians, and unborn children. In 1952, Gianna specialized in pediatrics at the University of Milan and from there on, she was especially drawn toward mothers, babies, the elderly and the poor.
Mother to nine children were born to this union, four of whom died prematurely. Among the five surviving daughters was Saint Therese, the future patron saint of the missions. Learn more...
Patron of Lost Things. He is typically depicted with a book and the Infant Child Jesus and is commonly referred to today as the "finder of lost articles." Learn more...