History Main / PatronSaint

* Every episode of ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'' discusses a saint whose feastday it currently is. All of them are fictional, some more fantastical than others, and a few are references to celebrities or historical personages of the real world.

* The aforementioned St. Vidicon is referenced in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo''-verse. Despite being fictional in-universe, he is venerated (due to the circumstances of his martyrdom) by radio technicians as the holy helper against the ravages of {{Murphy|sLaw}}, half in earnest and half as an in-universe lampshading/jab at up-time Catholics who continue to venerate saints who are either still alive in down-time or, ForWantOfANail, will never be born. When three radio techs petition the local cardinal for permission to found a holy order dedicated to St. Vidicon, he is less than amused.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/SpaceCadet'', when persuading the hero that an apparent accident was a real one and not a put-on job to scare the candidates, someone asks him whether he has ever heard of St. Barbara, explains that she is the patron of those in dangerous occupations, and tells him that if he goes to the chapel dedicated to her, he will find that the priest is saying Mass for those who died in the accident. This convinces him.

* The earliest ballads frequently mention RobinHood's devotion to the Virgin Mary.

** The Imperial Cult, which is really just [[RecycledINSPACE Catholicism IN SPACE!]] has numerous saints, one of the more famous being [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Saint Sabbat]], and Ollanius Pius, [[YouShallNotPass patron saint of Guardsmen]].

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* The town of Tassing in ''VideoGame/{{Pentiment}} has two: a former Roman legionary, St. Moritz, and a local peasant woman, St. Tasia, both of whom converted from paganism early in the history of Christendom. A shrine at the monastery hosts a relic purported to be Moritz's arm, and attracts many pilgrims.

* In ''Film/TheMadAdventuresOfRabbiJacob'', Victor Pivert (Creator/LouisDeFunes) is lost in the French countryside with his car being turned over on his boat on a river and with his Jewish driver Salomon (who just got fired) leaving him there. He prays Saint Anthony of Padua in order to find a tow truck and a driver (a Catholic one, specifically), then bumps into a building with lights on and thanks the saint.

* ''Film/TheMiracleOfOurLadyOfFatima'' is about Mary's visitations in Portugal to Lucia Santos and her cousins, now St. Francisco and WaifProphet St. Jacinta Marto. Canonized on May 13, 2017, they are the youngest saints other than some of the early Christian martyrs.

* Leonard Cohen's ''Beautiful Losers'' is about a Canadian historian researching Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha, "the Lily of the Mohawks"

* The first act of ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz'' centers on the canonization of the title character. In time, with the re-emergence of technology, St. Leibowitz becomes patron saint of electricians. There is also a reference to Saint Raul the Cyclopean, patron of mutants. Precisely why they have one of these instead of adding mutants to the remit of the patron saint/s of people with birth defects is not enlarged upon, but may have something to do with the FantasticRacism against mutants that the Church has forcibly come out against.

* In ''Literature/{{Cell}}'', by Creator/StephenKing, Denise successfully helps Clay find a necessary item by invoking St. Anthony's help[[note]]Because of his phenomenal memory, his fellow Franciscan monks used to rely on him to help them find things they'd misplaced. As a saint, he's popular as a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071114201434/http://catholicism.about.com/od/prayers/qt/Novena_Ant_Lost.htm finder of lost people, material things and even spiritual or emotional states]].[[/note]] Clay himself borrows this idea at the [[NoEnding ending]].

* St. Expeditus, a cult saint not recognized by the Church, is referenced in the FatherKoesler mystery, ''Death Wears a Red Hat'', wherein he is noted both as the patron saint of avoiding procrastination and hurrying decisions and also in his role in Santeria of being used in rituals to dispatch foes.

* In ''[[TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Hell On Earth]]'', the Templars have their own pantheon of Patron Saints (that includes, among others, St. John Wayne and St. Eliot Ness).

* [[https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/St_Dyphnia_Academy/4887845/ St Dyphn(i)a Academy]] -- The students in attendance should have realized that something was [[SealedEvilInACan very]] [[EldritchAbomination wrong]] with a school [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace named after]] the patron saint of ''the insane''.