Who is the patron saint of farmers?
6 saints in this library are patrons of farmers. Each profile below cites its sources, and says where those sources disagree rather than picking between them.
Saint Guy of Anderlecht
c. 950 - c. 1012
Feast: September 12Read
Saint Isidore the Farmer
c. 1070 - May 15, 1130
Farmers and rural laborers, per Franciscan Media; "peasants and day-labourers," per the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia; the farmers and peasants of Spain, by John XXIII's declaration of 1960
Feast: May 15Read
Saint Medard of Noyon
c. 456 - c. 545 or 560
Farmers and brewers; invoked for fair weather or for rain
Feast: June 8Read
Saint Notburga
c. 1265 - 1313
Servants, maids, peasants and farmers, and the poor; invoked for rest from work and a happy childbirth
Feast: September 14Read
Saint Walburga
c. 710 - February 25, 777 or 779
Sailors, and those caught in storms; farmers and harvests; invoked against hydrophobia and rabies. Patroness of Eichstätt and its diocese, and of Antwerp, Oudenarde, Furnes, Groningen and Zutphen, among other places
Feast: February 25Read
Saint Wendelin of Trier
c. 554 - c. 617
Feast: October 20 (October 21 in the Roman Martyrology)Read
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