All Saints Day

Today is All Saints Day which as you may or may not know is a day to honor all the people up in Heaven that have not officially been named a saint. This makes them hard to write about, so instead we have made a list of patron saints with unusual and not so unusual causes. (A note on patron saints: Basically a patron saint is a saint connected with something who is often who one would go for help in that area. Just like in day to day life, your car breaks down you ask a mechanic for help not a cook because they know more about cars. What one becomes a patron for is based on their lives. Some choices are obvious; St. Joseph is the patron for carpenters, because that’s what he did in life. Some are not; St. Clare is the patron of television because she had visions which are kind of like TV if you think about it and TV is new so there aren’t any saints who actual worked in television.) So here is our list of people you can ask to pray for you wither you’re an actor or a waiter.
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Actors/Actress St. Genesius
Addicts St. Maximilian Kolbe
AIDS Patients St. Peregrine Laziosi
Air Travelers St. Joseph of Cupertino
Alcoholics St. Monica
Astronauts St. Joseph of Cupertino
Bee Keepers St. Ambrose
Booksellers St. John of God
Boy Scouts St. George
Bull Riders St. Mary *
Cab Drivers St. Fiacre
Comedians St. Vitus
Compulsive Gambling St. Berbard of Siena
Computers St. Isidore of Seville
Death Sts. Joseph, Michael, Gabriel & Raphael
Disasters St. Genevieve
Dogs St. Roch
Fire Prevention St. Catherine of Siena
Fireworks St. Barbara
Funeral Directors St. Joan of Arc
Gravediggers St. Anthony the Abbot
Hairdressers St. Martin de Porres
Homeless St. Benedict Joseph Labre
Horses St. Martin of Tours
Infertility Sts. Rita of Cascia & St. Philomena
Insanity St. Dymphna
Internet St. Isidore of Seville
Juvenile Delinquents St. Dominic Savio
Lost Items St. Anthony of Padua
Medical Technicians St. Albert the Great
Paralysis St. Osmund
Pawnbrokers St. Nicholas#
Poisoning St. Benedict
Politicians St. Thomas More
Postal Workers St. Gabriel
Public Relations St. Bernardine of Siena
Race Relations St. Martin de Porres
Radio St. Gabriel
Scientist St. Albert the Great
Secretaries St. Genesius
Skaters St. Lidwina
Skiers St. Bernard
Television St Clare of Assisi
Undertakers Sts. Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus
Waiters/Waitresses St. Martha

*Unofficially
# Yes that’s Santa Claus. The 3 circles on the sign of a pawnshop are actual meant to represent the 3 bags of gold he secretly gave to a family for dowries for their 3 daughters so they didn’t have to become prostitutes, which has forever linked him with Christmas gift giving.

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