Saints

Patron of urgent causes, the soldier-martyr who chose today over every tomorrow and answers with famous speed.

Patroness of anxious and troubled minds, whose shrine at Geel taught the world how to care for the suffering with dignity.

The wonder-working friar of our own age, whose whole counsel was pray, hope, and don’t worry.

The mother whose seventeen years of tears won the conversion of St. Augustine, patroness of all who pray and wait.

The finder of lost things, whose intercession restores what is missing, from house keys to hope itself.

Patroness of impossible causes, who outlasted every sorrow with prayer and received what no one believed could be given.

Mother Cabrini, patroness of immigrants and the first American citizen canonized, who found no ocean too wide when love called.

The Little Flower, Doctor of the Church, who promised a shower of roses from heaven.

Apostle and patron of hopeless causes, honored with thanksgiving offered before the miracle.