Who is the patron saint of doctors, nurses and health care workers?

6 saints in this library are patrons of doctors, nurses and health care workers. Each profile below cites its sources, and says where those sources disagree rather than picking between them.

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  Saint Agatha

  c. 230 - c. 251

  Healing from diseases of the breast, and nurses, per Franciscan Media

  Feast: February 5Read
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  Saint Apollonia

  Died c. 249

  Dentists, and relief from toothache, per Franciscan Media

  Feast: February 9Read
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  Saint Camillus de Lellis

  1550 - July 14, 1614

  Hospitals, nurses, health care workers and the sick, per Franciscan Media

  Feast: July 18Read
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  Saint Catherine of Genoa

  1447 - September 15, 1510

  Neither source assigns a patronage. She is invoked by nurses, and by women in unhappy marriages

  Feast: September 15Read
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  Saint John of God

  March 8, 1495 - March 8, 1550

  Hospitals, nurses, the sick, heart patients, firefighters, booksellers and printers, per Franciscan Media

  Feast: March 8Read
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  Saint Luke

  First century

  Artists and painters, brewers, butchers, notaries, and physicians and surgeons

  Feast: October 18Read

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