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Before going on, lets look at what Wikipedia has to say about saints: A saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God. However, th …

What are the steps and permissions required to add more “patronages” to saints? Apart from having a group of faithful that invoke a particular saint for for a particular cause, there are no official …

If Catholicism rejects freemasonry, why are there patron saints of Freemasons? Freemasonry has been condemned by the Church numerous times. Any Catholic who becomes Freemason is automatically excommun …

How did Isidore of Seville become the patron saint of the Internet and computer programmers? Pope St. John Paul II declared St. Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the Internet because he tried to …

What is the spiritual significance of a patron saint? The spiritual significance of having a patron saint is quite simple. We have a saint in heaven to, as one can say, have as a heavenly friend that …

How did Saint Anthony come to be the patron Saint of finding lost objects? St. Anthony of Padua one day found the Psalter of someone. This lead others to invoke him as the Patron Saint of finding Lost …

How can a particular trade of modern times get a patron saint? There is no process for getting a patron saint either in the past or the present, unless it be the patron saint of a particular local chu …

Why is Mary Magdalene the patron saint of hairdressers and when was the first time she was assigned this role? Historically speaking we do not know when St. Mary-Magdelene became the patron saint of …

Does the Catholic Church have a “Patron Saint against the pandemic caused by the coronavirus”? This is just so much of a coincidence that it must be stated in the affirmative: Yes, there is a patron s …

What is the connection between St. Michael and people who work in grocery stores? If you desire a source that states how St. Michael the Archangel became the patron saint of grocers, you are going to …

If a cathedral has to move in a diocese, is it normal to rename the parish? The short answer is no. But indults do exist. One would think that it would not be possible! After all Canon Law seems to ma …

Can Patron Saints be “dethroned”? Validly canonized patron saints are never "dethroned". This question is completely nuanced with several different questions being addressed in a single question. …

Is there a biblical basis for the assignment of patron saints? First of all, I will not be dealing with the Biblical bases for praying to saints in general because that has been answered in the follow …

Does the Catholic Church teach a specific way to pray to the saints? Catholic piety and Church teaching go hand in hand here. There is no particular manner or special way to talk with our friends in h …

The naming of a patron saint of a parish church must be chosen by the clergy and the faithful of the area in union with their local ordinary (bishop) and then approved by the Congregation for Divine W …