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Religious Jewelry

Religious Medals and their meanings:

Saint Name:      Patron Saint Of:

St. Andrew: Fisherman and elderly maids

St. Anne:  Cabinetmakers.  Housewives and women in labor

St. Anthony:  The poor and women who cannot conceive

St. Barbara:  Dying firefighters and miners

St. Christopher:  Travelers

St. Elizabeth Seton:  Death of children or parents and widows

St. Florian:  Firefighters

St. Francis of Assisi:  Ecologists and merchants

St. George:  Boy scouts, soldiers and farmers

St. Gerard:  Expectant mothers

St. John Neumann:  Humility and simplicity

St. John the Baptist:  Teachers

St. Joseph:  Labor and dying

St. Jude Thaddeus:  Hospitals

St. Lucy:  Eye trouble

St. Luke:  Physicians, artists, brewers, butchers, painters and glass workers

St. Mark:  Notaries

St. Martha:  Cooks and servants

St. Martin De Porres:  Social and racial justice, hair stylists and public relations

St. Matthew:  Bankers and tax gatherers

St. Michael:  Law enforcement, emergency workers, radiologists, paratroopers and bankers

St. Roch:  Invalids

St.  Teresa:  Florists, aviators and foreign missionaries

Mother Cabrini:  Immigrants