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Patron Saints
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.
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