Elena Zuniga didn’t go searching for the patron saint of anxiety, depression and mental illness, but St. Dymphna found her anyway. First, a small St. Dymphna charm showed up in her jewelry box ...

Catholics love to tell you about their grandma’s devotion to St. Jude or how they attended blessings of the throat in honor of St. Blaise as kids. Prayer cards, medallions, and devotional ...

Blessed Mary MacKillop, the Australian nun once excommunicated and now beatified, is on her way to canonization. Is she the patron saint of troublemakers? Excommunicated today, canonized tomorrow ...

How St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, ... that they would gift strangers a piece of candy or give away prayer cards or candles or teeny bouquets of gardenias.