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Some patron saints and their causes:

• Anne (French-Canadian voyageurs),
• Anthony of Padua (those seeking lost persons or items),
• Barbara (service personnel of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces),
• Bernardine of Siena (advertisers),
• Bernard of Menthon (skiers),
• Cajetan (the unemployed),
• Cassian of Imola (stenographers),
• Cecilia (musicians),
• Columbanus (motorcyclists),
• Drogo of Sebourg (coffee-house keepers),
• Elmo (pyrotechnicians, steeplejacks, chimneysweeps and anyone working at great heights),
• Fiacre (taxi drivers),
• Gummarus (lumberjacks),
• Joan of Arc (soldiers),
• John Bosco (editors),
• Joseph of Arimathea (funeral directors),
• Joseph of Cupertino (astronauts),
• Kateri (ecologists),
• Lidwina (ice skaters),
• Martha (dieticians),
• Mary Magdalene (hairdressers, pharmacists and prostitutes),
• Matthew (tax collectors and perfumers, among many others),
• Philip (pastry chefs),
• Solange (shepherdesses),
• Ursula (orphans),
• Valentine (beekeepers),
• Vitus (comedians),
• Wolbodo (students),
• Zita (waiters).
• Isidore of Seville, who is celebrated by some as the patron saint of the Internet, is sometimes also accorded patronage over cartography because of the Jerusalem-centred T-O map of the world he produced, which remained influential for centuries to come. Isidore has been officially confirmed in neither capacity by the Vatican.