Health and illness

Any of these can be asked. There is no order of precedence and no wrong choice, so pick whoever the story fits.

• St. AgathaA martyr of Sicily, asked for by women facing breast cancer.
• St. Aloysius GonzagaRenounced a princely inheritance at seventeen and died at twenty-three nursing plague victims.
• St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.
• St. André BessetteA doorkeeper in Montreal for forty years, associated with thousands of healings he refused credit for.
• St. Bernadette SoubirousThe girl who saw Our Lady at Lourdes, asked for by the sick and the poor.
• St. BlaiseA physician-bishop, asked for by anyone with a throat ailment.
• St. Camillus de LellisA gambler who lost everything, then invented modern nursing, asked for by the sick and by gamblers.
• St. Charbel MakhloufA Lebanese hermit-monk whose tomb became one of the world's most reported healing sites.
• St. Damien of MolokaiVolunteered for the leper colony no one could leave, and died one of them.
• St. Gemma GalganiA young mystic of Lucca who lived with spinal tuberculosis, asked for by people with back pain.
• St. John of GodA soldier turned hospital founder, asked for by heart patients and the mentally ill.
• St. LucyA young martyr of Syracuse whose name means light, asked for by people with eye trouble.
• St. Peregrine LaziosiA cancer patient himself, asked for by people facing the same diagnosis.
• St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.
• St. Raphael the ArchangelThe archangel of healing, safe travel, and finding the right person.
• St. RochA pilgrim who nursed plague victims, caught it, and was fed by a dog, asked for in epidemics.
• St. Teresa of ÁvilaA Carmelite reformer who prayed dry for twenty years, asked for by headache sufferers and anyone whose prayer feels like nothing.