Leo XIII proclaimed him patron of all hospitals and of the sick. Pius XI later named him- along with Saint John of God- one of the two main co-patrons of nurses and nursing associations in 1930.

The faces of the Saints. Even a Saint for pierogies. "There are patron saints for everything, so I'm not surprised there is a patron saint of pierogi," says Father Nick Vaskov at Saint Stanislaus ...

The Patron Saints provides an unsettling glimpse inside the disquieting and often disturbing life at a nursing home (trailer posted below). In this documentary, which will debut at the Toronto ...

As a lifelong Protestant, only recently have I begun to discover the delightful array of patron saints within the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. (And as my Episcopal friends would remind me ...