Health and illness

Which saint to pray to for illness?

Sancteo's sources associate certain saints with the sick or report accounts of healing. This page distinguishes between patronages and accounts without promising results.

Please note. Sancteo presents traditions of intercession and hagiographical accounts. These resources do not replace medical, psychological, legal, social, or pastoral support, nor emergency services.

Direct devotional link

Saints traditionally invoked

The patronage or traditional use of invocation is explicitly preserved in Sancteo’s data.

Saint Camillus de Lellis17th century · July 18th

Documented patronage

« the sick »

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Saint Didacus (Diego) of Saint Nicholas15th century · November 13th

Documented patronage

« the sick »

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Saint Servulus of Rome6th century

Documented patronage

« the sick »

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Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès20th century · March 23rd

Documented patronage

« the sick »

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Anthony of St. Ann Galvão19th century · October 25th

Documented patronage

« the sick »

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Dulce Lopes Pontes20th century · August 13th

Documented patronage

« The sick »

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Light from the corpus

Saints linked by a miracle account

These figures are not presented as patron saints: their presence is explained by an account directly classified under this intention.

Saint Taurinus of Rome5th century · August 11th

Directly related account

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