Saints for real life
Browse by need
Start with what you are carrying. Each need here opens onto the saint Catholics have long asked to pray for it, the place where that saint can still be encountered, and the journey that leads there.
Everyday needs
The things people carry into an ordinary week.
In trouble, illness or danger
What Catholics pray when a situation has stopped moving.
Journeys
Setting out, and arriving somewhere holy.
Work, craft and creation
Vocations, and the world we are given to work in.
More needs
Catholics have asked the saints for help in every corner of ordinary life. Choose a need here to meet the saints who have long been invoked for it.
- Missionaries
- Teachers
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Priests
- The poor
- Converts
- Widows
- Writers
- Artists
- Mothers
- Fathers
- Marriage
- Sailors
- Farmers
- Prisoners
- Lawyers
- Peace