![]() ![]() Either way, he’s now considered the patron saint of swimmers and those at danger from drowning. Adjutor is said to have either escaped Muslim captors during the First Crusade and escaped by swimming (according to various stories, he either swam to Crusader territory, swam all the way to France, or was recaptured and then transported back to France by Mary Magdalene), or else calmed a whirlpool that had emerged beside a boat he was traveling on. But what if you have other problems or interests that would require the divine assistance of an even more specific saint? Well … 1. ![]() Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta Marto, a young brother and sister from the Portuguese parish of Fatima, are said to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary exactly 100 years ago this year, and Pope Francis’s canonization marked the centenary of their first miraculous vision.īecause the locals at the time first refused to believe the Marto siblings’ story-and because they both succumbed to the great flu epidemic that swept Europe just two years later-Saints Franciso and Jacinta of Fatima are already considered patron saints of the sick, of chronic bodily illnesses, and of those ridiculed for their piety. On May 13, Pope Francis canonized the two most recent saints in the Catholic Church at a special ceremony in Portugal. ![]()
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