Mental and emotional
Any of these can be asked. There is no order of precedence and no wrong choice, so pick whoever the story fits.
- St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.
- St. DymphnaAsked for by people carrying anxiety, depression, and mental illness.
- St. John of GodA soldier turned hospital founder, asked for by heart patients and the mentally ill.
- St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is invoked against fear.
- St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.