We have saints for your complaints!

ruzuzu commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

I think each of these would make a good name for a band.

January 28, 2011

chained_bear commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

At last!!! At last, someone made me the perfect list!! Oh please let it be comprehensive, please, please, please...

January 28, 2011

reesetee commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

This goes under "Lists I've Always Promised Myself I'd Create, But I'm Probably Too Late." Thank heavens for sionnach. :-)

January 28, 2011

sionnach commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

From Wikipedia:

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession is believed to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This group of Nothelfer ("helpers in need") originated in the 14th century at first in the Rhineland, largely as a result of the epidemic (probably of bubonic plague) that became known as the Black Death.

The basic 14 are:

Saints-

Agathius, Barbara, Blaise, Catherine of Alexandria, Christopher, Cyriacus, Denis, Erasmus, Eustace, George, Giles, Margaret of Antioch, Pantaleon, Vitus (Guy)

For one or another of the saints in the original set, Anthony the Anchorite, Leonard of Noblac, Nicholas, Sebastian, Oswald the King, Pope Sixtus II, Apollonia, Dorothea of Caesarea, Wolfgang of Regensburg, or Roch were sometimes substituted. In France an extra "helper" is added, the Virgin Mary.

January 29, 2011

sionnach commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

Chained_bear expressed the hope this list would be comprehensive. A little research shows this to be a forlorn hope indeed. But for anyone interested in tracking down complaints not listed here there is the mother of all resources:

Your extended family in heaven and what they can do for you.

January 29, 2011

bilby commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

Surely Saint Valentine can cure afflictions like cash flow problems in the cut flower industry.

February 1, 2011

chained_bear commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

May God and the saints (and the Virgin Mary, as an extra helper) preserve you, sionnach.

February 1, 2011

qms commented on the list we-have-saints-for-your-complaints

A useful addition can be found at fiacre.

March 20, 2014