Little Known Patron Saints

eyescreamcone

Today is a feast day of the immaculate conception. That sounds a little silly to me as I don't believe a woman can get knocked up without having sex (IVF etc discounted).

So I got thinking what other feast days should we celebrate (these are allowed to be silly too)??

My brother always prays to Saint Boniface when he's struggling to find a parking space in town "Boniface, Boniface - help me find a parking space".
So obviously Boniface is the patron saint of parking spaces.
Feast day - Saturday afternoons!

Padre Pio - is obviously the patron saint of bad goalkeepers - because like bad goalkeepers he kept leaving the ball through his hands.
Feast day??

Joseph Christ - the patron saint of cuckolds. A lot of husbands at this time of year pray to Joseph when their wives head to town for their office party, before returning around 5am.
Feast day? The wife's Xmas office party night

Any other patron saints we should pray to??
Don't be shy to just make stuff up - they started it!

AnonoBoy

Feast of Saint Never Again.

It's a weekly feast day celebrated mostly on Saturday or Sundays when people vow to never again touch alcohol.

It's only a half-day feast though as most people are back on the gargle by about 4 in the afternoon that same day.

Annasopra

Saint Jude

eyescreamcone

mango salsa wrote: »

Saint Jude

The patron saint of hopeless cases?

Muir

My mam went to mass today because it's the feast day of the immaculate conception. Que my niece asking about how that was possible because wouldn't Mary need to have been pregnant for 9 months.

BBDBB

mango salsa wrote: »

Saint Jude

eyescreamcone wrote: »

The patron saint of hopeless cases?

Nah

nah

Nah

Nahnah naaaaaaaah

hey Jude

o1s1n

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Today is a feast day of the immaculate conception. That sounds a little silly to me as I don't believe a woman can get knocked up without having sex (IVF etc discounted).

It amazes me how we can live in a 'catholic country' yet nobody bloody knows what the immaculate conception actually is! :pac:

Spiritual

Are the saints listed in the OP actually patron saints?

Isn't Patrick and Brigid Ireland's patron saints, other countries have their patron saints, and the rest just saints?

It's been awhile!!

mattjack

The feast of Saint Wages,
occurs every Thursday for most.
There's also the Eve of the Feast of Saint Wages.. occurs every Wednesday.

snubbleste

St. Boardsdottie
patron saint of carpal tunnel syndrome

eyescreamcone

o1s1n wrote: »

It amazes me how we can live in a 'catholic country' yet nobody bloody knows what the immaculate conception actually is! :pac:

Should we celebrate December 8th by NOT trying to get a ride???

fryup

Muir wrote: »

My mam went to mass today because it's the feast day of the immaculate conception. Que my niece asking about how that was possible because wouldn't Mary need to have been pregnant for 9 months.

your niece has a point........mary gets "knocked up" on the 8th and gives birth on the 25th

maybe some theologian out there can explain it all

o1s1n

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Should we celebrate December 8th by NOT trying to get a ride???

The immaculate conception is the birth of Mary without sin. It has absolutely nothing to do with someone getting knocked up without having sex.

Of course, most of the country seems to think along the same lines as yourself. Which I find hilarious.

Jimoslimos

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Should we celebrate December 8th by NOT trying to get a ride???

No, we should spend it trying to conceive the future mother of God

fryup

o1s1n wrote: »

The immaculate conception is the birth of Mary without sin. It has absolutely nothing to do with someone getting knocked up without having sex.

so let me get this straight......Mary's mammy got pregnant through immaculate conception as well??

Jimoslimos

fryup wrote: »

so let me get this straight......Mary's mammy got pregnant through immaculate conception as well??

No, it means she was born or conceived without original sin (the thing baptism is supposedly for).

Virgin conception is completely different.

Both are equally as absurd though.

eyescreamcone

fryup wrote: »

your niece has a point........mary gets "knocked up" on the 8th and gives birth on the 25th

maybe some theologian out there can explain it all

Holy Ghost does not come out of the story in a good light.
Patron saint of cuckoos?

o1s1n

fryup wrote: »

so let me get this straight......Mary's mammy got pregnant through immaculate conception as well??

What do you mean 'as well?' it has nothing to do with a virgin birth.

Mary was born without original sin (for whatever reason). Obviously her parents did the deed. This was the 'immaculate conception' - conception of Mary without original sin.

Somewhere along the road, people started getting it confused with the virgin birth of Jesus. It has nothing to do with it any virgin birth.

On a side note, I am not religious and I don't believe in god. I just find the need to point this out to people whenever I see them confusing it. It's quite hilarious when the person in question claims to be a catholic.

fryup

Jimoslimos wrote: »

No, it means she was born or conceived without original sin (the thing baptism is supposedly for).

Virgin conception is completely different.

wha how is it completely different??

o1s1n

fryup wrote: »

wha how is it completely different??

Read my above post.

fryup

but i was always lead to believe that "original sin" was sex ? is it?

eyescreamcone

o1s1n wrote: »

What do you mean 'as well?' it has nothing to do with a virgin birth.

Mary was born without original sin (for whatever reason). Obviously her parents did the deed. This was the 'immaculate conception' - conception of Mary without original sin.

Somewhere along the road, people started getting it confused with the virgin birth of Jesus. It has nothing to do with it any other virgin birth.

On a side note, I am not religious and I don't believe in god. I just find the need to point this out to people whenever I see them confusing it. It's quite hilarious when the person in question claims to be a catholic.

Also, Mary was supposed to have been asked if she would consent to all this by Archangel Michael (?)

Was there a sub in place (without original sin) if Mary said "naw, ask me friend"

Or was Mary the sub???

o1s1n

fryup wrote: »

but i was always lead to believe that "original sin" was sex ? is it?

Serious? Would be a bit strange if some supreme being made our only way to reproduce as a species a sin!

No, original sin is us going from being nice, good little obedient servants of god to being kicked out of Eden for our disobedience and guilt.

My name is URL

There's an Irish one named Fiacre who is Patron Saint of STDs

fryup

fryup wrote: »

but i was always lead to believe that "original sin" was sex ? is it?

o1s1n wrote: »

Serious? Would be a bit strange if some supreme being made our only way to reproduce as a species a sin!

yes i am, isn't that why the cc has a jaundice view on sex... i.e. try not to enjoy it, its for pro-creation only, no contraception, celibacy in priesthood and all that?

sex i.e. adam & eve is the original sin

jill_valentine

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Also, Mary was supposed to have been asked if she would consent to all this by Archangel Michael (?)

Was there a sub in place (without original sin) if Mary said "naw, ask me friend"

Or was Mary the sub???

Just think, there was probably some far more awesome lady partying her way around Nazareth who, upon being approached by Michael, said "f*ck that ****, Imma start a business." and lived happily ever after, unbeknownst to any of us.

eyescreamcone

My name is URL wrote: »

There's an Irish one named Fiacre who is Patron Saint of STDs

How does that work??
Do u pray to him that you won't get an STD ?
Or do u pray to him to get rid of it??

We might need to call on St Jude as well in some cases

morton

St Michael : patron saint of shopping in the good times.
St Bernard : patron saint of shopping nowadays

I foresee the canonisation of St aldi and St lidl: patron saints of shopping where we have to.

laoch na mona

st. richard dawkins 1st pope of atheism
feast day any time someone insults religion because belief is SO evil

Annasopra

Saint Isidore

Rasheed

Well he's not little known but I think Mam has a hotline to St. Anthony.

She's on to him every week or so for keys, phone, wallet etc.

keith16

St. Martin, if you lose something.

Eve_Dublin

Saint Toilet Roll. He's the patron saint of toilet roll.

My name is URL

eyescreamcone wrote: »

How does that work??
Do u pray to him that you won't get an STD ?
Or do u pray to him to get rid of it??

Not sure, but he's also patron of Taxi drivers so...

I'm not even making it up like =/

http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-fiacre/

RobbingBandit

St Bernard, I hear he is a bit of a dog.;)

keith16

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

Saint Toilet Roll. He's the patron saint of toilet roll.

Another common misconception, Saint Toilet Roll is actually the patron saint of taking a dump.

Capt'n Midnight

saint blaise
blessing of throats



St Joseph of Cupertino: The patron saint of astronauts (Feast Day: 18 September)

St Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet, computers and computer technicians (Feast Day: 04 April)

St Fiacre, patron saint of taxi drivers, and often invoked against sexually transmitted diseases (Feast day: 30 August)

St Frances of Rome, patron saint of automobile drivers (Feast day: 9 March)

St Drogo, patron saint of unattractive people (Feast day: 16 April)



Argentinian ambassadors - Gabriel the Archangel
AIDS patients - St. Peregrine Laziosi
Archaeologists - St. Helen
Bee keepers - St. Ambrose

Communication workers - Gabriel (Michael, Gabriel and Raphael)
Death - Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
Solemnity of St. Joseph

Difficult marriages - St. Rita of Cascia
Drug addiction - St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

Hospital administrators - St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Immigrants - St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Impossible causes - St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
St. Rita of Cascia

Insanity - St. Dymphna

Juvenile delinquents - St. Dominic Savio


Mystics - St. John of the Cross


http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/patrons.aspx

jill_valentine

My favourite weird patron saint is St. Agatha, Patron Saint of Bell founders.

Agatha had her breasts cut off by her persecutors, giving rise to some of the weirdest NSFW Christian paintings you could ever unexpectedly stumble over. As a result, her statues tend to depict her as standing around with her amputated boobs on a little dish in a kind of "Ah for feck's sake" kind of gesture. This boobs-on-a-plate, over time, began to be "reinterpreted" as a pair of... bells. And also breadloaves.

Mardy Bum

laoch na mona wrote: »

st. richard dawkins 1st pope of atheism
feast day any time someone insults religion because belief is SO evil

Belief plus tribalism equals very dangerous people.

Eve_Dublin

keith16 wrote: »

Another common misconception, Saint Toilet Roll is actually the patron saint of taking a dump.

Was that not Saint Ploppypants?

jesse pinkman

And don't forget St. Fechin . . patron saint of Fr. Ted.

Cool_CM

St. Hubbins: The patron saint of quality footwear

kerash

There's one for nosebleeds

Jimoslimos

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Bee keepers - St. Ambrose

Thought there was an Irish one, St. Molaga

byhookorbycrook

My name is URL wrote: »

There's an Irish one named Fiacre who is Patron Saint of STDs

He was born near Graiguenamanagh, I think.ETA Just saw someone posted above about taxis.
St. Brigid was patron of brewers. St Gobnait was also said ot be patron of bee keepers.

Catari Jaguar

How many times do you have to repeat "Oh Mary, concieved without sin, pray for us" in that monotonous prayer before it sinks in what the immaculate conception is?! Nothing to do with the virgin birth! Mary gotta be all perfect and spotless, immaculate even, so her son Jesus wouldn't have a bad reputation. That God, and his crazy ideas...

byhookorbycrook

Catari Jaguar wrote: »

How many times do you have to repeat "Oh Mary, concieved without sin, pray for us" in that monotonous prayer before it sinks in what the immaculate conception is?! Nothing to do with the virgin birth! Mary gotta be all perfect and spotless, immaculate even, so her son Jesus wouldn't have a bad reputation. That God, and his crazy ideas...

Or as teenage girl "Oh Mary,conceived without sin, pray for us to
sin without conceiving!"

Czarcasm

jesse pinkman wrote: »

And don't forget St. Fechin . . patron saint of Fr. Ted.

I read that as Saint Felching and thought "nahhh, couldn't be a patron saint of..." :eek:


Saint Ignatius anyway- Patron Saint of soldiers and founder of the Jesuits.

Smidge

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

He was born near Graiguenamanagh, I think.ETA Just saw someone posted above about taxis.
St. Brigid was patron of brewers. St Gobnait was also said ot be patron of bee keepers.

Am I right that Gobnait is the Irish for Deborah(that has something to do with bees as well, think its a latin reference)?

byhookorbycrook

Have heard it used as the "Irish" for Deborah,yes, but think it's a name in its own right too.

Smidge

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Have heard it used as the "Irish" for Deborah,yes, but think it's a name in its own right too.

The niece's name is Deborah so can call her Gobnait over the xmas now and wreck her head(love tormenting teenagers:D)