Saints and their healing powers

The healing power associated with certain saints is often intrinsically linked to the veneration of their sacred relics. These relics, whether bone fragments, pieces of clothing, or other objects believed to have been in direct contact with the saint, are seen as divine channels through which grace and healing can be transmitted. . Pilgrims flock to the shrines that house these relics with the hope of receiving blessings and miraculous healings.

Hagiographic accounts often recount episodes where simple proximity to a relic led to spectacular healings . These relics become focal points of devotion, symbolizing the saint's continued presence in the earthly world and embodying the possibility of healing through divine grace. Thus, the connection between the saints, their relics, and the power of healing creates a spiritual continuum that transcends time, providing believers with a tangible path to transcendence and healing.

It is important to emphasize that belief in the healing power of saints and their relics is a matter of religious faith and spirituality, but it does not necessarily constitute a verifiable objective reality. Stories of miracles and healings associated with saints are often rooted in religious tradition and are passed down through generations within believing communities. However, from a scientific and empirical perspective, it can be difficult to validate such events objectively.

 

Saint AGATHE (230-251)

• It is used against tumors or other breast diseases.
• We invoke it to calm the “fire” of passions that consumes us.
• Against earthquakes.
• Against fires.
• Against volcanic eruptions.
• To chase away the demon

Saint AIGNAN (358-453)

• Invoked to cure ringworm.
• crusty eczema (ragonnea).
• psoriasis.
• skin disease in general.
• Protector of children

Saint Alphonsus of Liguori (1696-1787)

• Invoked for decision making
• Against arthritis

Saint AMBROISE (340-397)

• it protects hives and bees.
• it is invoked to acquire numerous moral virtues.
• to fight against greed.

Saint Amadeus of Savoy (1435-1472)

• it is invoked against epilepsy

Saint ANDRE (+62)

• We invoke him against injustices
• the infertility
• drop
• dysentery
• torticollis

Saint Andrew of Corsini (1302-1373)

• Invoked to calm discord.
• to re-establish good understanding between people who have been disturbed.
• for the conversion of fishermen.
• for the conversion of the profligate.

Saint Albert the Great (1193-1280)

• Against poisoning
• Against drug addiction

Saint Anne (1st century)

• the grandparents place themselves under his protection.
• women who want a child

 

Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-June 13, 1231)

• Summoned by those attempting to find an item.
• Summoned to protect children.
• Invoked against fevers and contagions.
• By women looking for a husband.

Relic of Saint Anthony of Padua

 

 

 

Saint Anthony (251-356) The Great or The Egyptian

• All skin conditions
• In particular "the Fire of Saint Anthony"
• Erysipelas
• Invoked to protect the goods of the earth (harvests etc...)

Saint Apolline (249)

• Toothache cures.
• More especially during the growth of infant teeth.
• Healing headaches.

SAINT CURE OF ARS Saint Jean-Marie Vianney (1786-1859)

• Invoked against diabolical obsessions
• Invoked before confessing.

Saint AUBIN (469-550)

• Invoked for the cure of whooping cough
• cough

Saint AVERTIN (1120-1180)

• Relieves the most stubborn migraines
• dizziness
• We pray to him to heal all pain and wounds that affect the head and cranial box.

Saint BEARD (3rd century.)

• Invoked against lightning, lightning and fire.
• We ask him to intercede for us against the fear or temptation of unexpected death or lightning...or on the contrary to protect us from it.
• invoked to obtain a quick death when there is no more hope of recovery
• we can ask him for all kinds of graces.

Saint BENEDICT (480-547)

• invoked against poisonings.
• inflammations.
• renal colic, kidney stones.
• bullous eruption called "Saint Benedict's bladders".
• “the Saint Benoit disease” called “rinfle” or “rifle” skin condition of babies.
• Against impetigo.
• invoked against the devil and temptations. Holy Exorcist
• Putting yourself under the protection of Saint Benedict is useful in cases of obsessions and obsessive disorders.

Saint BLAISE (4th century)

• invoked against the stings of vipers
• against sore throats
• invoked when one chokes while eating (he would have saved a half-dead child choking on a fish bone)
• against childhood illnesses
• To protect livestock

Sainte Bibiane (+ 363)

• invoked against headaches
• Epilepsy cure
• Healing mental illnesses

Saint Camille de Lellis (1550-1614)

• to heal the sick
• to limit the passion for the game
• convert the debauched

Saint CHRISTOPHER (3rd century)

• Invoked to protect motorists and travelers.

• Invoked to avoid accidents.

Saint CLAIR (845-4 November 884)

• Summoned for the words of the eyes.
• Celandine called “wart grass” was formerly called “Saint Clair grass”

Saint CLAUDE (607-699)

• in cases of meningitis (Saint Claude disease).
• in nervous breakdowns.
• to get relief in cases of headaches.

Saint CLEMENT (+97)

• It is invoked against childhood illnesses.

Saint Colette (1380-1447)

• Prayed by parents wanting children

Saint COMO and DAMIEN

• invoked for healing the bolt
• enuresis
• digestive system disorders. (gastritis among others)

Holy CONSORCE

• Hemorrhage

Saint CRÉPIN (+285)

• to relieve stomach aches in children

St Denis

• invoked against migraines.
• invoked against delusions.

Saint Dorothy (3rd century)

• used against eczema
• erysipelas
• migraines

Saint Dymphna (7th century)

• against anxiety

Saint ELOI (588-660)

• Saint Eloi is invoked for everything that concerns horses, sick horses, horses that refuse to move forward,
• Fractures caused by a horse kick.
• invoked for healing eczema
• abscesses, nails (“misplaced”)
• Summoned in cases of extreme fatigue

Saint EPHREM (306-373)

• It is invoked against psychological eating disorders such as
• anorexia
• bulimia
• We invoke it against fatigue

Saint ETIENNE (1st Century)

• protection of amnesiacs.
• invoked against memory disorders.
• against “stone diseases” i.e. Stones

Saint Evroult (+596)

• Healing a sick child

Saint EXPEDIT (?-303)

• Invoked to provide a quick solution to urgent problems.
• To unravel tangled affairs
• To help win a dubious case
• For exam success

Saint FIACRE (-670)

• digestive tract diseases
• Colic
• against hemorrhoids. (called the “Saint Fiacre evil”)
• against constipation.
• for the healing of ulcers. (in Colleville sur mer in Calvados)
• for the healing of hernias in Gouchaupré in Seine Maritime
• sciatica in Gouchaupré in Seine Maritime

Saint FIRMIN (-111)

• Invoked against epilepsy.
• Leprosy.
• insomnia.
• hemorrhoids.
• scurvy.
• anemia.
• cramps.
• rheumatism.
• Eresipelas.

Saint GABRIEL (Archangel)

• Saint Gabriel is invoked when there is a desire for a child.

Saint GENES of Rome (IV Century)

• Invoked to relieve and very often cure ringing in the ears also called tinnitus.

Saint GENEVIEVE (423-502)

• Invoked during great disasters.
• to achieve vision improvement.
• to exorcise women possessed by the demon.
• escape starvation and find food.
• Against gangrene
• Against skin inflammations.
• Against eresipelas.

Saint GENGOUL (-760)

• In all couple conflicts

• to prevent separations, infidelity and divorce

Saint GEORGE (280?-303)

• Invoked for all things horse related
• to arms
• against skin diseases and stingers.
• against leprosy
• against syphillis.
• To pass your exams.
• When looking for a job
• When you want to keep a job
• When you are the victim of professional jealousy
• To chase away the demon

Saint GERARD MAJELLA (1726-1755)

• When we are slandered
• Falsely accused
• to protect a pregnancy
• for mothers

Relic of Saint GERRARD MAJELLA

 

 

Saint GERBOLD (-695)

• Dysentery
• Diarrhea in infants.

Saint GILLES (End of 7th-beginning of 8th century)

• invoked to reduce and cure “limping”
• to encourage the infant to dare to take his first steps.
• invoked to relieve or cure cancers.
• invoked for fear, night frights.
• convulsions.
• for depression and nervous illnesses.
• to resolve desperate cases

Saint GREGORY THE GREAT (540-604)

• to relieve stomach aches (he himself regularly suffered from stomach pain)
• against anxiety.
• against sadness, against attacks of melancholy.
• to have the clarity of mind necessary to solve scientific problems.

Saint GUENOLE

• in cases of sterility
• so that breastfeeding women do not lack milk (It is said that the mother of Saint Guénolé saw a third breast grow in her to feed her son, the last born of triplets)
• to cure conjunctivitis.
• The warts
• Neuralgia
• In Brittany Saint Guénolé is particularly prayed to by sailors' wives.

Relic of Saint GUENOLE

 

 

Saint GUY (IV Century)

• against epilepsy
• against Chorea...the dance of Saint Guy (acute nervous and rheumatic disease characterized by sudden involuntary muscular contractures persisting at rest)
• Against dental abscesses
• Against snake bites
• Against dog bites
• To stay awake.

Saint HELENE (249?-329)

• It is invoked against the side point.
• Against eye ailments.
• To find someone

Saint HUBERT (+727)

• Insomnia
• Invoked against rabies and snake bites.
• invoked against fear

Saint Jacques. (1st century Decapitated in the year 44)

• It is invoked to treat and relieve RHEUMATISM.
• paralysis
• warts

Relic of Saint JAMES

 

 

Saint JACQUES THE MINOR (-60)

• Invoked against the suffering of the dying.

Saint JOHN of the CROSS (1542-1591)

• Healing corns
• abscesses
• calluses on the feet.

The HOLY CURE OF ARS ~~ Saint Jean-Marie Vianney (1786-1859)

• Invoked against diabolical obsessions
• Invoked before confessing.

Saint JEROME (347-420)

• To avoid giving in to anger.
• To calm his aggression.

Saint JOB (5 centuries BC)

• Skin disease, notably eczema. (probably in memory of his suffering, and in homage to his stoicism.)
• Invoked against melancholy
• Invoked to avoid discouragement and despair when misfortune befalls us and our family.

Saint JOSEPH (1 Century)

• Invoked when looking for a roof.
• Invoked when one is in doubt.
• Invoked when looking for a job.
• Invoked to ask for good family understanding

Saint JOSEPH of CUPERTINO (1603-1663)

• Invoked for exam success

Saint JUDE (1st century)

• to obtain a rapid and positive outcome of the most complicated affairs.
• for Desperate Causes.

Saint JULIEN de BRIOUDE (III Century)

• To help stop criminals and recover stolen items

Saint JULIEN du Mans

• He intercedes for all kinds of ailments of the body and the Soul

Saint LAURENT (210-258)

• invoked to relieve burns.
• against lumbago.
• to get something to heat up.
• to free souls from purgatory.
• to cure shingles.

Saint LENDELIN (625-686)

• Invoked against warts

Saint Léon de Carentan (856-890)

• Invoked for vocations

Saint Leonard (+559)

• Invoked for the release of prisoners

Saint LÔ (VI Century + 565)

• Summoned to cure blindness.

• eye diseases.

Saint LOUIS (1214-1270) Louis IX King

• Healing deafness
• Hearing related problems
• Healing abscesses.
• All skin diseases.
• Cure of tuberculosis.

Saint LOUIS de GONZAGUE (1558-1591)

• He is prayed for children and adolescents with problems.

Saint Loup (+623)

• Invoked for the healing of sick children,
• epilepsy,
• nervous diseases,
• for the protection of herds
• against fear

Saint Lubin (+557)

• It is used to relieve pain and rheumatism.
• to relieve vision problems
• to release bewitchments

Saint LUC (First century)

• It is invoked in cases of impotence.

• Urinary problems

Saint LUCIA (?-304)

• Invoked against eye diseases
• against hemorrhages.

Saint MALACHIE (1094-1148)

• We pray to him to develop the gifts of clairvoyance and prophecy.

Saint Mammès

• it is invoked to cure children's stomach aches.

Saint MARC (1st Century)

• Invoked in inheritance matters so that these take place without conflicts or heartbreaks.
• for good harvests
• against scabies

Saint Marcouf. (490-558)

• against tuberculosis.
• against scrofula (cervical adenitis of tuberculous origin).
• Boils.
• Abscess.
• Anthrax.

Saint Margaret of Antioch. (3rd century)

• During childbirth.
• For good deliverance.
• So that women have enough milk.

Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297)

• She is invoked for the strength to fight against temptations

Saint Marguerite-Marie-Alacoque (1647-1690)

• Varicose veins

Saint Martha. (1st century.)

• Invoked by housewives doing heavy chores that hurt the kidneys.
• Intestinal aches.
• Delay in walking.
• Summoned to find a soul mate.

Saint MARTIN (316-397)

• for any problems related to alcoholism
• for healing crow's feet
• tile
• fevers
• intestinal diseases.
• To find lost animals

Saint Matthias (1st Century)

• Protector of repentant alcoholics

• Invoked in cases of smallpox

Saint Matthew (1st century)

• to fight against greed.
• to free yourself from the desire for money.
• We also ask him
• Intelligence,
• memory,
• concentration

 

 

 

Saint Mathurin (-388)

• Invoked against attacks of madness.
• Against hallucinations.
• Against epilepsy
• Against anemia
• Against depression

Saint MAUR (+584)

• Used against articular rheumatism
• coryza
• arthritis
• drop

Saint Maurice (3rd century.)

• invoked to achieve victory in an armed conflict
• he can also intercede when one suffers from gout.
• and rheumatism.

Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1241-1298)

• For the salvation of souls in purgatory
• for the souls of the deceased
• For the souls of our dearly departed

Saint Meen (-617)

• Invoked against scabies.
• eczema.
• shingles.
• venereal diseases.

Saint Michel.

• Against temptations
• to chase away the devil
• Against the storms
• To relieve the souls in purgatory.

Saint Monica. (331-387)

• It is invoked for all the educational problems that arise for parents.
• Grieving mothers and wives pray to her for appeasement
• To promote the smooth running of childbirth.
• The impatient pray to her to obtain inner peace and confidence in God.

Saint Odile (660-720)

• Invoked against eye diseases

• Invoked when one finds oneself in "darkness" and yearns to encounter "light"

Saint Omer (?-670)

• used against constipation problems
• to relieve vision problems.
• to relieve blindness.

Saint Padre Pio (1887-1968)

• He is famous for his stigmata and there are many reports of healings and miracles associated with his prayers and relics.

Saint Pancras (-304)

• Invoked against liars
• against slanderers
• against perjury

Saint Peregrine (1260-1345)

• long-term illnesses
• serious illnesses (contagious or venereal)
• tumors
• ulcers.

Saint Philomena (3rd century)

• For desperate cases

Saint Peter of Verona. (1206-1252)

• invoked to free haunted houses.
• cure epilepsy.
• chase away bad vibes.

Saint Quentin (287)

• Pain
• Cough

Saint Radegonde (520-587)

• Against scabies.
• eczema.
• buttons.
• “the ragonnée” expensive eczema of infants.
• Protection and harvest success.
• Drop

Saint Raphael.

• Protector of travelers.
• He is asked to intercede to preserve the health of body and soul. (to protect against physical and spiritual blindness)
• To meet your soul mate.
• Protects couples in marriage.
• To combat seasickness.

Holy Queen (236-252)

• Invoked against the darter
• impetigo
• ringworm

Saint Rita (1381-1457)

• It is invoked for incurable illnesses.
• She is the Holy Advocate of impossible and desperate causes.

Relic of Saint Rita on relics.es

Saint Roch (1350-1380)

• Invoked against the plague
• To protect yourself or treat the incurably ill.
• Against rheumatism and knee problems.
• He also intercedes to help you lose weight.

Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617)

• against fevers
• against stomach ache.
• against eczema

 

Saint Sebastian (-288)

• Invoked against poliomyelitis.
• Against paralysis
• Against contagious diseases.
• Against fevers.
• Against the plague

 

Saint Servais (320-384)

• Used against rheumatism
• against lower limb pain
• This request can apply to both humans and animals
• We also pray to him for the success of businesses.
• Protects crops from frost

Saint Sulpice (-647)

• He intercedes to relieve and heal pain and illnesses affecting the KIDNEYS
• sexually transmitted diseases
• pulmonary pathologies. (according to tradition which says that he relieved Clotaire II of pleurisy.)

Sainte Thecla 1 century

• Invoked to triumph over the pitfalls of the demon
• Invoked for the paralyzed
• Invoked children who are slow to walk
• Invoked for the dying

Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

• Invoked to relieve souls in purgatory.
• to fight heart disease.
• Against serious illnesses.

Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)

• Depression
• Bad mood
• Melancholy

Saint TROPES or TROPEZ (+68)

• Against miscarriages

Saint Ursin (251-280)

• deliver intestinal worms especially children.
• cure foot and mouth disease
• cure canker sores
• skin diseases

Valentine's Day (?-270)

• used in cases of fainting
• Against epilepsy
• Against stomach aches

Saint Véran (+589)

• against delirium tremens
• invoked when one finds oneself in the presence of a person seized by an attack of madness

Saint Vincent (of Zaragoza) (?-304)

• invoked for the healing of mouth aches.
• canker sores.
• invoked to have a beautiful voice when you want to make a career in singing.
• invoked against intestinal problems and intestinal diseases.

Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)

• Invoked when one has lost something.

 

Saint Walburga (+ 779)

• For the cure of intestinal diseases.
• To relieve colic in babies.

Saint Yves (1253-1303)

• For the protection of the weak.
• For the protection of orphans.
• To calm the pain.
• To cure canker sores.
• For all questions of justice.

 

 

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