In the build up to our 2017 annual CMA youth conference entitled ‘Catholics in Healthcare: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Saints’ we asked young Catholics to write short posts for the CMA’s Facebook page about their favourite saints in healthcare. The first post went up on 18th September 2016, but the lives of the saints remain a timeless example to us.
(Please note, we have included saints who are inspirational to us as young Catholics in healthcare and relevant to healthcare but were not primarily ‘in’ healthcare as such, eg St Joseph.)
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02 Jan
St Basil the Great Patron Saint of Hospital Administrators -
04 Jan
St Elizabeth Ann Seton Patron Saint of Widows -
03 Feb
St Blaise Patron Saint of Those With Throat Illnesses -
10 Feb
St Scholastica Patron Saint of Those Who Experience Convulsions -
08 Mar
St John of God Patron Saint of Hospitals, Nurses, the Dying and the Mentally Ill -
20 Mar
St Joseph Patron of a Happy Death -
11 Apr
St Gemma Galgani Patron Saint of Pharmacists -
28 Apr
St Gianna Beretta Molla Patron Saint of Mothers, Physicians and Unborn Children -
01 May
St Peregrine Patron Saint of Cancer Patients -
09 May
St Louise de Marillac Patron Saint of Social Workers and the Sick -
10 May
St Damien of Molokai Patron Saint of Leprosy Sufferers -
30 Aug
St Jeanne Jugan Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor -
18 Sep
St Joseph of Cupertino Patron Saint of those with Learning Disabilities -
27 Sep
St Vincent de Paul Patron Saint of Hospitals and Charities -
11 Oct
St Maria Soledad Foundress of the Handmaids of Mary -
16 Oct
St Gerard Majella Patron Saint of Childbirth, Expectant Mothers, Unborn Children -
18 Oct
St Luke Patron Saint of Doctors -
16 Nov
St Giuseppe Moscati Doctor, Scientist, Professor -
28 Nov
St Catherine Labouré Patron Saint of the Elderly -
13 Dec
St Lucy Patron Saint of the Blind -
26 Dec
St Stephen Patron Saint of Those Who Experience Headaches