What saints should i pray to

Lucy was a girl in the Roman times. Her dad had died when she was a baby, and her mom decided to marry her to a pagan man, but she wanted to remain a virgin and devote herself to God instead. She took her mom to pray to the tomb of St.

Agatha, and the mom miraculously healed from the dysentery she had suffered for years, and that convinced her to break the engagement. However, her betrothed was not happy and he accused them of being Christians to the Roman courts, that sentenced her to tortures and death for refusing to adore the Roman Emperor as a God.

One of the terrible tortures she suffered was having her eyes pulled out, but nevertheless Lucy miraculously continued to see. She has an entire Romanesque chapel dedicated to her in one angle of the Cloister, that can also be accessed from the street that bears her name. Lucy preserves your eyesight! The reason is that according to the tradition and as his name suggests nonnatus meaning not-born in Latin , St. Let me share with you a Saint that is so useful to know about when you are on vacation, or anytime that you have made outdoors plans.

Because what can spoil more your trip than the rain? Would you like to know what saint will help you when nothing else has failed? Of course, that makes her quite popular, and she is one of the saints having most candles lit in her chapel in the Cloister, right next to the exit giving to Carrer del Bisbe. Red roses are the offering ladies bring her on her day — May What is your favorite Catholic patron saint?

If you're a believer, this means you're not only praying directly to God, you're also asking for the patron saints that are already in heaven to intercede. By involving saints, you're saying a prayer to those who have the ability to ask the Lord to help you in whatever it is that you need in accordance to His will. There's a patron saint you can pray to for every difficulty you're facing, such as money problems, an unstable relationship or health issues.

However, considering there are more than 10, named saints, knowing the right ones to pray to for your specific needs can help you immensely. In addition to the greatest of all saints, Mary, the Blessed Virgin, here are 10 patron saints you can turn to during difficult times:. Saint Rita of Cascia lived a hard and disappointing life, but nonetheless, God used her in amazing ways in life and death. Rita's patience, civility and compassion won her husband over after 18 years of abuse.

He was eventually murdered during a family rivalry, and his two sons decided to avenge his death. Rita couldn't persuade her children to forgive, so she turned to God and prayed that he would let them die before they committed a mortal sin. Her prayers were answered and both sons became ill and died within a year.

The feeling of loneliness drove her to become a nun, and because of her association with abuse and windows, she is recognized as the patron saint of lonely people.

She is also regarded as the "Saint of the Impossible," as she never lost her faith, despite living through so many tribulations. It's no surprise that Saint Valentine is the patron of love. He's the reason why we celebrate Valentine's Day after all.

It is believed that the Italian doctor-turned-Priest spent a large part of his lifetime bringing people together and helping them experience love. The famous saint was even incarcerated for officiating weddings during a time when new marriages were banned in ancient Rome.

He was martyred for refusing to renounce his beliefs, but it wasn't before he was able to send a note to a young blind girl he had befriended. The touching farewell note is believed to have cured Julia of her blindness so she could read it herself.

This is where today's tradition of sending cards on Valentine's Day stemmed from. Since his death, people in need of love or improvements in their romantic relationships have prayed to St.

For they too are only creatures, infinitely less than God, able to be at only one place at a time and to do only one thing at a time. Many such petitions are expressed, not orally, but only mentally, silently. How can Mary and the saints, without being like God, be present everywhere and know the secrets of all hearts? If being in heaven were like being in the next room, then of course these objections would be valid.

A mortal, unglorified person in the next room would indeed suffer the restrictions imposed by the way space and time work in our universe. After all, it is God himself who gives the gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues. Surely those saints in Revelation understand the prayers they are shown to be offering to God. Some may grant that the previous objections to asking the saints for their intercession do not work and may even grant that the practice is permissible in theory, yet they may question why one would want to ask the saints to pray for one.

If the mere fact that we can go straight to Jesus proved that we should ask no Christian in heaven to pray for us then it would also prove that we should ask no Christian on earth to pray for us. Praying for each other is simply part of what Christians do.

As we saw, in 1 Timothy —4, Paul strongly encouraged Christians to intercede for many different things, and that passage is by no means unique in his writings. Elsewhere Paul directly asks others to pray for him Rom. Stay with us and then we shall begin to shine as you shine, so to shine as to be light to others.

The light, O Jesus, will be all from you. None of it will be ours. It will be you shining on others through us. Let us thus praise you in the way you love best. Let us preach you without preaching, not by words, but by our example; by the catching force -the sympathetic influence of what we do,the evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to you. What miracles! Who would have ever imagined such! Dymphna served Thee with great zeal even in her childhood, by hearing Thy word with delight, by assisting at Holy Mass with fervent reverence, and by receiving Holy Communion from the hand of St.

Gerebran with tender devotion. Through her intercession we beg Thee to grant us the same virtue of piety so that, having honored Thee during this life as our Creator, we may possess Thee hereafter as our final reward. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Joseph], for I know by long experience what blessings he can obtain for us from God.

I have never known anyone who was truly devoted to him and honored him by particular services who did not advance greatly in virtue: for he helps in a special way those souls who commend themselves to him. It is now very many years since I began asking him for something on his feast, and I have always received it.

If the petition was in any way amiss, he rectified it for my greater good. I ask for the love of God that he who does not believe me will make the trial for himself—then he will find out by experience the great good that results from commending oneself to this glorious Patriarch and in being devoted to him.