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Little Known Patron Saints

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  • #32
    keith16
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    St. Martin, if you lose something.


  • #33
    Eve_Dublin
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    Saint Toilet Roll. He's the patron saint of toilet roll.


  • #34
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭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/


  • #35
    RobbingBandit
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    St Bernard, I hear he is a bit of a dog.;)


  • #36
    keith16
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    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.


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  • #37
    Capt'n Midnight
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    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


  • #38
    jill_valentine
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    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.


  • #39
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    Eve_Dublin
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    keith16 wrote: »
    Another common misconception, Saint Toilet Roll is actually the patron saint of taking a dump.

    Was that not Saint Ploppypants?


  • #41
    jesse pinkman
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    And don't forget St. Fechin . . patron saint of Fr. Ted.


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  • #42
    Cool_CM
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    St. Hubbins: The patron saint of quality footwear


  • #43
    kerash
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    There's one for nosebleeds


  • #44
    Jimoslimos
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Bee keepers - St. Ambrose
    Thought there was an Irish one, St. Molaga


  • #45
    byhookorbycrook
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    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.


  • #46
    Catari Jaguar
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    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...


  • #47
    byhookorbycrook
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    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!"


  • #48
    Czarcasm
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    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.


  • #49
    Smidge
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    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)?


  • #50
    byhookorbycrook
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    Have heard it used as the "Irish" for Deborah,yes, but think it's a name in its own right too.


  • #51
    Smidge
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    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)


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  • #52
    eyescreamcone
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    Smidge wrote: »
    The niece's name is Deborah so can call her Gobnait over the xmas now and wreck her head(love tormenting teenagers:D)

    You shoud pray to St. Lawrence - the patron saint of comedians :D (True!)


  • #53
    branie
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    It amazes me how we can live in a 'catholic country' yet nobody bloody knows what the immaculate conception actually is! :pac:


    When Mary was concieved, she was cleared of the stain of original that we all have - hence immaculate conception


  • #54
    eyescreamcone
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    branie wrote: »
    When Mary was concieved, she was cleared of the stain of original that we all have - hence immaculate conception

    How did this happen?
    Did she know at the time?

    Is it kind of like a baptism before baptism was invented?


  • #55
    ejmaztec
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    The patron saint of hopeless cases? ;)

    He's also the patron saint of the A&A forum.




    :pac:


  • #56
    9959
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    St. Hector - The patron saint of Eejitry


  • #57
    gobnaitolunacy
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    St Patrick, patron saint of ...wait for it. Nigeria, Monserrat and engineers.


  • #58
    philologos
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    If nobody has corrected the OP's ignorance yet, the Immaculate Conception is in RCC dogma to discuss the alleged sinless state of Mary at her birth. It doesn't refer to the birth of Christ. IMO it's unbiblical.

    Hopefully someone finds the clarification useful :)

    Edit: ois1n, thanks for doing this already. Nobody likes to get in the way of "good blasphemy" with facts I guess :)


  • #59
    Dyr
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    Saint Mobhi, patron saint of large whales


  • #60
    Buford Tannen
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    St Pats,patron saint of football


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  • #61
    Dyr
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    philologos wrote: »
    If nobody has corrected the OP's ignorance yet, the Immaculate Conception is in RCC dogma to discuss the alleged sinless state of Mary at her birth. It doesn't refer to the birth of Christ. IMO it's unbiblical.

    Hopefully someone finds the clarification useful :)

    Edit: ois1n, thanks for doing this already. Nobody likes to get in the way of "good blasphemy" with facts I guess :)


    Facts pretty much are blasphemy though


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