Students and learning

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

• St. Aloysius GonzagaRenounced a princely inheritance at seventeen and died at twenty-three nursing plague victims.
• St. Benedict of NursiaWrote the rule that shaped western monasticism, and is invoked against evil.
• St. Gemma GalganiA young mystic of Lucca who lived with spinal tuberculosis, asked for by people with back pain.
• St. John BoscoA street-magician priest who built a family for Turin's abandoned boys, asked for by parents and teachers.
• St. Joseph of CupertinoThe slowest student his teachers had ever met, asked for by test takers, and, from the levitations, by pilots.
• St. Thomas AquinasThe Church's greatest mind, locked in a tower by his own family, asked for by students.
• St. Albert the GreatAquinas's teacher; patron of scientists and natural philosophers.Page coming
• St. Angela MericiFounded the Ursulines to educate girls; patron of the education of women.Page coming
• St. AnselmFaith seeking understanding; patron of philosophers.Page coming
• St. Augustine of HippoMonica's son, the late convert who wrote the *Confessions*; patron of theologians and of restless people.Page coming
• St. Bede the VenerableEngland's first historian; patron of scholars.Page coming
• St. Carlo AcutisProgrammer, gamer, dead at fifteen, built a Eucharistic miracles database; patron of the internet generation.Page coming
• St. Catherine of AlexandriaOut-argued the philosophers, by tradition; patron of students and debaters.Page coming
• St. Charles BorromeoReformer of Milan who stayed through the plague; invoked for stomach ailments and by dieters, and patron of catechists.Page coming
• St. Charles Lwanga and CompanionsThe Ugandan martyrs, most of them young; patrons of African youth.Page coming
• St. Elizabeth Ann SetonWidowed mother of five, foundress; first U.S.-born saint; patron of Catholic schools.Page coming
• St. Gregory the GreatPope who called himself servant of the servants of God; patron of musicians and teachers.Page coming
• St. Isidore of SevilleCompiled all knowledge of his age; popularly invoked for the internet.Page coming
• St. JeromeTranslated the Bible and suffered no fools; patron of translators, librarians, and the short-tempered trying.Page coming
• St. John Baptist de La SalleInvented the modern classroom; patron of teachers.Page coming
• St. John BerchmansDied a student at twenty-two; patron of altar servers and seminarians.Page coming
• St. John Paul IIThe pope of the Luminous Mysteries; patron of families and of World Youth Day.Page coming
• St. José Sánchez del RíoFourteen-year-old martyr of the Cristero War; patron of persecuted youth.Page coming
• St. Joseph CalasanzOpened Europe's first free public school; patron of schools for the poor.Page coming
• St. Joseph MoscatiPhysician-professor of Naples who treated the poor free; patron of doctors and medical students.Page coming
• St. Julie BilliartParalyzed and healed, founded schools; patron of people with disabilities and of teachers.Page coming
• St. Justin MartyrThe philosopher who found the faith reasonable; patron of philosophers and apologists.Page coming
• St. Pier Giorgio FrassatiMountain-climbing engineering student who served the poor in secret; patron of young adults and outdoorsmen.Page coming
• St. Robert BellarmineThe Church's fairest controversialist; patron of catechists.Page coming
• St. Stanislaus KostkaWalked 350 miles to join the Jesuits at seventeen; patron of determined youth.Page coming