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Feast Day:  August 10
Patron of Chefs and Comedians
Lawrence was the archdeacon and treasurer of the Church during a time when practicing the Faith was banned. When his superiors were captured, he took the wealth of the Church and dispersed it among the poor. At his execution, he was asked by the authorities to hand over the riches of the Church, so he brought a large number of Rome’s poor with him.

Feast Day:  June 21
Patron of Leprosy
Lazarus was a leper mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. In the 1100s, the Order of Saint Lazarus was established to care for lepers.

Feast Day:  November 10
Patron of Speakers
Leo was a Doctor of the Church and one of three popes termed “Great”. During the invasion of Attila the Hun, Leo went to meet him with Saints Peter and Paul and successfully discouraged Attila and his attack.

Patron of Ice Skating

Feast Day:  July 27
Patron of those named Lillian
Lillian was a laywoman and a closet Christian until the persecutions of Caliph Abderrahman II, when she decided to openly display her Faith. She was martyred along with Saint George and her husband Saint Felix.

Feast Day:  August 25
Patron of Builders and Parenthood
King Louis IX of France ruled for over forty years. He was crowned at the age of twelve and died on the second crusade that he led. He established leper hospitals and monasteries, and fathered eleven children.

Feast Day:  March 15
Patron of Orphans and Social Workers
Louise was widowed and turned to her spiritual advisor, Saint Vincent de Paul, for guidance. She established the Daughters of Charity and later, the Sister of Charity.

Feast Day:  December 13
Patron of Eye Diseases and Writers
Also known as Lucy, Saint Lucia was a wealthy Christian. Her mother did not approve of her faith, so the two went to the tomb of Saint Agatha, where Lucia prayed and an illness of her mother’s was cured. Her arranged fiancé turned her over to the authorities.

Patron of the Poor, Homeless and Abandoned

Feast Day:  October 18  
Patron of Physicians and Painters
Luke wrote the Gospel According to Luke, based largely on the influence of Saint Paul, and the Acts of the Apostles, a history of the early church. It is said that he was a painter, but his works have never been correctly attributed to him.