medal(med-l) n. - A flat piece of metal stamped with a design or an inscription commemorating an event or a person, often given as an award.
Medal, a piece of metal, cast or struck, often coin-shaped. The obverse and reverse bear bas-relief and inscription. Commemorative medals are issued in memory of a notable person or event. Civil and military decorations are those medals (disk, cross, or star) conferred by state, order, or organization for signal bravery or service or for distinction in science or the arts. Religious medals, often worn by Roman Catholics, are believed to be efficacious if blessed by the Church; an indulgence may be attached to a blessed medal. Medals have ranked as works of art since Greek times; Roman medals are notable for their realistic portraiture. Medals returned to fashion during the Renaissance, especially through the fine work of Pisanello. Many sculptors and painters were famous also as medalists, notably Leone Leoni, Benvenuto Cellini, and Albrecht Drer. France in the 19th cent. became the leader in producing medals of artistic merit. Cast medals were predominant in the 15th cent., but by the 16th had been largely superseded by die-struck medals. Dies may be cut direct, or a wax or plaster model about four times the intended size of the medal may be reproduced as a metal electrotype from which a die is made in the desired size by a reducing machine operating on the principle of the pantograph. See also numismatics; ribbon.
patron saint - n. A saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, or person.
A saint from whom a person or group claims special protection or prayers. Saint Christopher, for example, is considered the patron of travelers; Saint Luke, the patron of doctors; and Saint Patrick, the patron of Ireland. People who have the same name as a saint may consider the saint their patron. The honoring of patron saints is especially common in the Roman Catholic Church.
patron saint
In several forms of Christianity, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. St. Florian is the patron saint of firefighters, and St. Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, for example. Eastern Orthodoxy generally doesn't associate saints with occupations and activities, or does so to a much lesser degree.
Patron saints can also be associated with geographical areas: St. Joseph is the patron saint of Belgium, and St. Patrick is patron saint of Ireland, for example.
Association with a particular area or profession can be found with tutelary deities from other religions as well.
Saints associated with occupations and activities
Agatha - nurses, bellmaking
Alexius - nurses
Amand- bartenders, Boy Scouts, brewers, innkeepers, merchants, vine growers, vintners
Ambrose of Milan - bee keepers, wax melters and refiners
Andrew the Apostle - fish dealers, fishermen
Anne - equestrians, stablemen
Anthony the Great - swineherds, motorists
Anthony of Padua - fishermen, swineherds
Apollonia - dentists
Augustine of Hippo - brewers, printers, and theologians
Barbara - architects and builders, artillerymen and arsenals, prisoners
Bartholomew the Apostle - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
Basil the Great - hospital administrators
Benedict of Nursia - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
Benno - fishermen
Bernadette of Lourdes - shepherds, shepherdesses
Bernard of Clairvaux - bee keepers, wax melters and refiners
Bernard of Venice - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
Blaise - veterinarians, wool combers and weavers
Botulph - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
Brigid of Ireland - dairy farms and workers, healers
Camillus of Lellis - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
Catherine of Alexandria - tanners, nurses
Catherine of Siena - nursing services, nurses
Cecilia - musicians
Clare of Assisi - television
Cosmas - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
Germaine Cousin - shepherdesses
Christopher - travellers
Crispian - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
Crispin - tanners, leatherworkers and curriers
Cuthbert - shepherds
Cuthman - shepherds
Damian - doctors, pharmacists, surgeons
Dominic of Silos - shepherds
Drogo - shepherds
Dymphna - mental health professionals, therapists
Eligius - veterinarians, farriers, farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry, harness makers
Elisabeth of Hungary - hospitals, nursing services
Erasmus of Formiae (Saint Elmo) - sailors
Erhard of Regensburg - hospitals
Eustachius - hunters
Fiacre - Taxi-drivers, venereal disease sufferers, horticulturists, hemorrhoid sufferers
Foillan - dentists, surgeons
Francis of Assisi - animal welfare and rights organizations and workers; environment
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows - students, seminarians, clerics, youth
Gemma Galgani - pharmacists
George - soldiers, farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry, equestrians, scouts
Rocco Gonzalez - Native American traditions
Rene Goupil - anethesiologists
Hubert of Liege - hunters, furriers
Isidore the Farmer - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
Isidore of Sevilla - computer scientists, programmers, programming
James the Greater - veterinarians, equestrians, furriers, tanners, pharmacists
James the Lesser - pharmacists
Januarius - blood banks
Jeanne de Chantal - forgotten people, loss of parents, parents separated from children, widows, girls
Jerome - librarians, translators
Joan of Arc - Girl Guides
John the Almoner - Knights Hospitaller
John the Apostle - tanners
John the Baptist - farriers, bird dealers, Knights Hospitaller, Wroclaw
John of God - hospitals and hospital workers, nurses
John Bosco - apprentices, editors, printers/publishers
Joseph the Betrothed - fighting Communism
Joseph of Cupertino - air travelers and aviators
Juan de Castillo - Native American traditions
Jude (also known as Jude Thaddeus) - hopeless cases, and hospitals and hospital workers
Julian the Hospitaller - shepherds
Saint Lawrence - librarians, tanners
Luke the Apostle - doctors, surgeons, artists
Margaret of Antioch - nurses, pregnancy
Martha - dieticians
Mary Magdalen - tanners
Magnus - fish dealers
Albertus Magnus - chemists, medical technicians
Martin of Tours - equestrians
Michael the Archangel - radiologists, soldiers, paramedics, police officers
Nicholas of Myra - fishermen, pharmacists
Notburga - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
Our Lady of Salambao - fishermen
Pantaleon - doctors
Paul the Apostle - hospital public relations
Peter the Apostle - popes, fishermen, fishmongers, sailors, bakers, harvesters, butchers, glass makers, carpenters, shoemakers, clockmakers, blacksmiths, potters, masons, bridge builders, cloth makers, penitents, virgins; helps against: snake bites, rabies, demonic possession, ill legs, thefts
Phocas the Gardener - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
St. Raphael - shepherds, shepherdesses
Raphael the Archangel - doctors, pharmacists, nurses
Raymond of Penyafort - medical record librarians
St. Regina - shepherdesses
John Regis - medical social workers
Roch - surgeons
Alonso Rodriguez - Native American traditions
Severus of Avranches - silk workers, wool weavers and manufacturers
Simon - tanners
Solange - shepherdesses
Tomas de Aquino - students
Thomas More - Politicians, Statesmen
Turibius of Mogroveio - Native American rights
Valentine - bee keepers
Vincent de Paul - hospitals and hospital workers
Walston - farms, farmers, farmhands, ranches, husbandry
Wolbodo - students
Francis Xavier Cabrini - hospital administrators
Zeno of Verona - fishermen
Occupations and activities under the patronage of Mary
The Blessed Virgin Mary may be taken as a patron of any good activity; indeed, she is cited as the patron of all humanity. However, certain occupations and activities are more closely associated with her protection.
airplane crews and pilots (esp. Belgian, Spanish and French)
Andorran security forces
Argentinian Army, Navy and military chaplains
bicyclists
blood donors
boatmen
Bolivian Navy builders
Chilean Army and Navy
Cistercian Order
clothworkers
coffee house keepers and owners
construction workers
cooks
coopers
distillers
drapers
Ecuadorian Army
enlightenment
fishermen and sellers
goldsmiths
harness makers
lamp makers
mothers
motorcyclists
navigators
needle and pin makers
news sellers
nuns
oblate vocations
potters
restauranteurs
ribbon makers
sailors
silk workers
silversmiths
soldiers of the United States
Spanish architects and police officers
tapestry workers
Teutonic Knights
travellers
tilemakers
uphosterers
Venezuelan National Guard
virgins
yachtsmen
Saints associated with countries, nations and/or regions
Adalbert of Magdeburg - Czech Republic
Adalbert of Prague - Bohemia, Poland, Prussia
Aeden of Ferns - Ferns, Ireland
Afra - Augsburg
Agatha - Catania; Palermo, Italy; Zamarramala, Spain
Agathoclia - Aragon, Spain
Agnellus - Naples, Italy
Agricola of Avignon - Avignon
Alexander of Bergamo - Bergamo, Italy
Amalberga - Ghent, Belgium
Ambrose of Milan - Milan, Italy
Andrew the Apostle - Achaia; Amalfi, Italy, Greece; Patras, Greece, Russia, Scotland
Anne - Brittany, Canada, Quebec, Santa Ana Indian Pueblo; Taos, New Mexico
Ansanus the Baptizer - Siena, Italy
Ansgar (or Anskar) - Denmark, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden
Anthony of Padua - Brazil, Native Americans, Portugal
Antoninus of Sorrento - Sorrento, Italy
Antony of Vilna - Vilna, Lithuania
Arnulph - Gap
Arthelais - Benevento, Italy
Astricus - Hungary
Arsenius of Corfu - Kerkira Island, Greece
Asicus - archdiocese of Elphia
Augustine of Canterbury - England
Augustine of Hippo - dioceses of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Saint Augustine, Florida; Superior, Wisconsin; Tucson, Arizona. Cities of Cagayan de Oro and Saint Augustine, Florida.
Gerald Aurillac - Upper Avergne
Andrew Avellino - Naples, Italy, Sicily
Josephine Bakhita - Sudan
Peter Baptist - Japan
Barbara - Syria
Barnabas - Antioch, Cyprus
Barbatus of Benevento - Benevento, Italy
Bartholomew the Apostle - Armenia
Basil the Great - Russia
Bavo - Ghent, Belgium; Haarlem, Netherlands
Pascal Baylon - Obando, Bulacan, Philippines
Thomas Beckett - Portsmouth, England
Benedict - Europe
Benedict the Black - African-Americans, Palermo, Italy
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - Europe
Benezet - Avignon
Benignus of Dijon - Dijon
Berach - Kilbarry, Ireland
Bernard of Clairvaux - Gibraltar
Bernadine Realino - Lecce, Italy
Bernard of Valdeiglesias - Candelada
Bernadette of Lourdes - Lourdes, France
Bernardino of Siena - Italy
Louis Bertran - Colombia
Blaise - Dalmatia, Dubrovnik
Boniface - Germany
Boris - Moscow, Russia
Francis Borgia - Portugal
Botulph - Boston
Braulio - Aragon, Spain
Brigid of Ireland - Ireland
Brigit of Sweden - Europe, Sweden
Brothen - Llanbrothen, Wales
Bruno - Ruthenia
Bruno of Querfurt - Prussia
Peter Canisius - Germany
Canute - Denmark
Carl Lwanga - Catholic African Youth Association
Casimir of Poland - Lithuania, Poland
Catald - Taranto
Catherine of Siena - Europe, Italy; Siena, Italy
Cecilia - Albi, France
Peter Chanel - Oceania
Christopher - Rab, Croatia
John Chrysostom - Istanbul, Turkey
Clara - Obando, Bulacan, Philippines
Clare of Assisi - Santa Clara Indian Pueblo
Peter Claver - Colombia, African-Americans
Clement of Ohrid - Bulgaria; Republic of Macedonia
Colman of Cloyne - Cloyne, Ireland
Colman of Stockerau - Austria
Columba - Ireland, Scotland
Constabilis - Castelabbate, Italy
Cunegundes - Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland
Cuthbert - Durham, England, Northumbria, diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
Cyprian of Carthage - Algeria, North Africa
Judas Cyriacus - Ancona, Italy
Cyril - Bohemia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Europe, Moravia, Yugoslavia
Cyril of Alexandria - Alexandria, Egypt
David of Wales - Wales
Denis - France, Paris, France
Devota - Corsica, Monaco
Dionysius the Arepagite - Zakynthos Island, Greece
Dominic de Guzman - Dominican Republic
Donat - Llandunwyd, Glamorgan
Donatus - Ripacandida
Dorothy of Montau - Prussia
Drogo - Baume-les-Messieurs, Fleury-sur-Loire
Ellidius - Hirnant, Powys, Wales
Eric of Sweden - Sweden
Eulalia - Barcelona
Eurosius - the diocese of Jaca
Eustace of Vilna - Vilna, Lithuania
Eustachius - Madrid, Spain
Fachanan - Ross, Ireland
Ferdinand III of Castile - Seville, Spain
Fiacre - France, Saint-Fiacre-en-Brie
Finbar - Barra, Scotland; Cork, Ireland
Florian - Upper Austria, Poland; Linz, Austria
Francis of Assisi - Assisi, Italy, Colorado, Italy; Santa Fe, New Mexico, the archdiocese of San Francisco, California
Frideswide - Oxford, England
Frumentius - Ethiopia
Gabriel the Archangel - Portugal
Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows - Abruzzi
Gall - Sweden, Switzerland
Gatianus of Tours - Tours
Genevieve - Paris, France
St. George - Aragon; Catalonia; England; Ferrara, Italy; Russia; Canada; Georgia; Genoa, Italy; Germany; Gozo; Greece; Lithuania; Malta; Palestine; Portugal; Istanbul, Turkey; Moscow
Gerard of Lunel - Montesanto, Italy
Gertrude the Great - West Indies
Giles - Edinburgh, Scotland
Gratus of Aosta - Aosta, Italy
Gregory the Great - England, West Indies
Gregory the Illuminator - Armenia
Gudule - Brussels, Belgium
Hallvard - Oslo, Norway
Hedwig (Jadwiga) - Bavaria
Helier - Jersey, Saint Helier
Henry of Uppsala - Finland
St. Hyacinth - Poland
Ivo of Kermartin - Brittany
James the Greater - Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Spain
James the Lesser - Uruguay
James of the Marches - Naples, Italy
Januarius - Naples, Italy
John IV of Naples - Naples, Italy
John the Apostle - Asia Minor; Taos, New Mexico
Joan of Arc - France
John of Avila - Andalusia, Spain
John the Baptist - Florence, Italy, Canada, Genoa, Italy, Turin, Italy
John de Brito - Portugal
John of Dukla - Lithuania
John of Kanty - Lithuania, Poland
John de Brbeuf - Canada
John of Nepomuk - Bohemia, Czech Republic
John of Vilna - Vilna, Lithuania
Ignatius of Antioch - the Church of North Africa
Jarlath - the archdiocese of Tuam, Ireland
Isaac Jogues and companions - The Americas, Canada
Isidore the Farmer - Madrid, Spain
Josaphat - Ukraine
Joseph the Betrothed - The Americas, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, Canada, China, Croatia, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Universal Church, Vietnam
Julia of Corsica - Corsica
Justa - Seville, Spain
Justus - Alcala, Spain; Madrid, Spain
Panagia Kastriani - Skiathos Island, Greece; Tzia Island, Greece
Kentigern - Glasgow, Scotland
Kessog - Lennox, Scotland
Kevin - the archdiocese of Kevin and all of Ireland
Killian - Bavaria
Knud - Denmark
Koloman - Austria
Jutta Kulmsee - Prussia
St. Lawrence - Rome, Italy, Sri Lanka
Leonard of Port Maurice - Imperia, Italy
Leopold the Good - Austria
Louis IX - the archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri
Lucy of Syracuse - Syracuse
St. Ludmila - Bohemia, Czech Republic
Macarius of Antioch - Ghent, Belgium
Maquimus of Aquila - Aquila, Italy
Margaret of Scotland - Scotland
Marinus - San Marino
Mark the Evangelist - Venice, Egypt
Maro - Volperino, Italy
Martin de Porres - Peru, African-Americans
Martin of Tours - France
Martina - Rome, Italy
Maruthas - Iran, Persia
Mary Anne de Peredes - The Americas
Maximinus of Trier - Trier, Germany
Maximus of Turin - Turin, Italy
Maughold - Isle of Man
Maurice - Austria
Methodius - Bohemia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Europe, Moravia, Yugoslavia
Michael - Germany
Michael (archangel) - Caltanissett, Sicily; Cornwall; Brussels, Belgium; Papua New Guinea; Archdiocese of Seattle
Mochelloc - Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland
Modestus - Cartagena, Spain
Moses the Black - Africa
Munchin - diocese of Limerick; Limerick (city)
Mura - Fahan, Ireland
Philip Neri - Rome, Italy
Nicetas - Romania
Nicholas - Bari, Italy
Nicholas of Flue - Switzerland
Nicholas of Myra - Greece, Lorraine, Portsmouth, England, Russia, Sicily
Saint Nikolaj Velimirovic - Serbia
Elias Nieves - Mexico
El Nio - Cebu, Philippines
Nino - Georgia
Norbert - Bohemia
Lawrence O'Toole - archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland
Octavius - Turin, Italy
Odile - Alsace
Olaf II - Norway
Palladius - Scotland
St. Pastor - Alcala, Spain; Madrid, Spain
Patricia of Naples - Naples, Italy
St. Patrick - Ireland, Nigeria
Paul the Apostle - Malta, Poznan, Poland, Rome, Italy
Peter the Apostle - Poznan, Poland; Rome, Italy
Peter of Alcantara - Brazil, Estremadura, Spain
St. Petroc - Piran
Pharaildis - Ghent, Belgium
Philip the Apostle - Luxembourg, Uruguay
St. Piran - Cornwall
Plechelm - Netherlands
Procopius - Czech Republic
St. Publius - Malta
Quirinus - Sisak, Croatia
Raynald of Nocera - Nocera, Italy
Remigius - France
Edmund Rich of Abingdon - Abingdon, England
Riginos - Skopelos Island, Greece
Roch - Istanbul, Turkey
Rosalia - Sicily, Palermo, Italy
Rose of Lima - The Americas, Central America, India, Latin America, Peru, Philippines, South America, West Indies; Villareal, Samar, Philippines
Rupert of Salzburg - Salzburg, Austria
Sabinus - Bari, Italy
Gerard Sagredo - Hungary
Mary Salome - Veroli, Italy
Ambrose Sansedoni of Siena - Siena, Italy
Saturnin - Toulouse
Alexader Sauli - Corsica
St. Sava - Patron saint of Serbia
Sebald - Bavaria
Sebaldus - Nuremberg, Germany
Severinus of Noricum - Austria
Sigfrid - Sweden
Sigismund - Czech Republic
Silverio - Ponza, Italy
St. Siro - Pavia, Italy
Francis Solano - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru
Solutor - Turin, Italy
Spyridon - Kerkira Island, Greece
Stanislaus of Cracow - Poland, archdiocese of Cracow, Poland
Stephen - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Stephen of Hungary - Hungary
Syrus of Genoa - Genoa, Italy
Syrus of Pavia - Pavia, Italy
Swithbert - Germany
Theneva - Glasgow, Scotland
Theodore of Pavia - Pavia, Italy
Teresa of Avila - Spain
Thrse de Lisieux - France, Russia
Thomas the Apostle - East Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Thorlac Thorhallsson - Iceland
St. Titus - Crete
Turibius of Mogroveio - Peru
Ulric - Augsburg
Urban of Langres - Dijon
Laura Vicuna - Argentina
Vincent de Paul - Madagascar
Vincent of Saragossa - Portugal
Virgilius - Salzburg, Austria
Vitus - Czech Republic, Rijeka,Croatia
Vladimir I of Kiev - Russia
Walburga - Antwerp, Belgium; Gronigen, Netherlands; Oudenarde, Belgium; Zutphen, Netherlands
Waltrude - Hainault, Belgium; Mons, Belgium
St. Wenceslas - Bohemia, Czech Republic, Moravia
Werburgh - Chester, England
Willibrord - Luxembourg, Netherlands
Willihad - Saxony
Wulfram of Sens - Abbeville, France
Francis Xavier - Australia, Borneo, China, East Indies, Goa, Japan, New Zealand
Zenobius - Florence, Italy
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