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Namwalker
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My kids are finally going back to college to (hopefully) work towards and attaining a degree. I was wondering if there was a particular saint that is considered to be the patron of students.
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CathMass
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One of the most well known saints for students is St. Joseph of Cupertino. ewtn.com/library/mary/joseph.htm
I also suggest St. Philomena. www.philomena.us
I also suggest St. Philomena. www.philomena.us
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Deo_Gratias42
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College Students? I recommend St. Expeditus, The patron saint of procrastinators, emergencies and solutions.As a student myself, I keep him on speed dial. 
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Namwalker
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My kids take after me and could be called procrastinators.College Students? I recommend St. Expeditus, The patron saint of procrastinators, emergencies and solutions.As a student myself, I keep him on speed dial.
The real solution that I am interested in for them and for you is the degree that each of you are studying for.
Their area of interest is computer technology and teaching. Teaching does run in my family but I couldn’t do it. I was one of those students who actually had three majors in college. So I understand the nature of scholastic emergencies.
Regards…
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Namwalker
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Thanks for reminding me about St. Philomena. There was a girl’s high in my hometown that was named after her.
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Rutabaga
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Another good saint to pray to is Saint Thomas Aquinas.
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choliks
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Also St. Aloysius Gonzaga, declared by Pope Benedict XIII as patron Saint of young students in 1729.
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Leon_Bloy
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There are many… some already mentioned:
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
All of them have been officially “appointed” in a sense as patrons of youth. There might also be others. But any saint can be your personal patron for anything, if only you ask them.
Martyrs - especially the early Virgin martyrs (Agatha, Lucy, Cecilia, Agnes… and Philomena! Many others, too) are excellent patrons and examples for students. Saints who died young - including Gonzaga and Frassati, but also St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. John Berchmans, St. Dominic Savio, St. Maria Goretti, etc. Also, Saints John Bosco and Philip Neri loved young people and had many of them among their friends…
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
All of them have been officially “appointed” in a sense as patrons of youth. There might also be others. But any saint can be your personal patron for anything, if only you ask them.
Martyrs - especially the early Virgin martyrs (Agatha, Lucy, Cecilia, Agnes… and Philomena! Many others, too) are excellent patrons and examples for students. Saints who died young - including Gonzaga and Frassati, but also St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. John Berchmans, St. Dominic Savio, St. Maria Goretti, etc. Also, Saints John Bosco and Philip Neri loved young people and had many of them among their friends…
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E_7
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Definitely, St. Thomas Aquinas! He has helped me along with God and everyone in heaven I ask for help. He is really amazing.
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YoungTradCath
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My patron, St. Joseph of Cupertino!
Prayer Before Study
Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of both sin and ignorance. Give me a sharp sense of understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations, and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in completion; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of both sin and ignorance. Give me a sharp sense of understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations, and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in completion; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Holly3278
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Here is a list of saints for students:
Albert the Great
Ambrose of Milan
Benedict
Cassian of Imola
Catherine of Alexandria
Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother
Gemma Galgani
Gregory the Great
Isidore of Seville
Jerome
John Bosco
Joseph Calasanz
Joseph of Cupertino
Lawrence of Rome
Nicholas of Myra
Osanna Andreasi
Philomena
Symphorian of Autun
Thomas Aquinas
Ursula
This is where I found the list. It has links for each saint to learn about them:
saints.sqpn.com/patrons-of-students/
Albert the Great
Ambrose of Milan
Benedict
Cassian of Imola
Catherine of Alexandria
Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother
Gemma Galgani
Gregory the Great
Isidore of Seville
Jerome
John Bosco
Joseph Calasanz
Joseph of Cupertino
Lawrence of Rome
Nicholas of Myra
Osanna Andreasi
Philomena
Symphorian of Autun
Thomas Aquinas
Ursula
This is where I found the list. It has links for each saint to learn about them:
saints.sqpn.com/patrons-of-students/
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Namwalker
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Thanks to all who have responded to my querry. However, I particularly want to thank Leon Bloy who mentioned something that I have forgotten and shouldn’t have; that “any saint can be your personal patron for anything, if only you ask them”.
The church has named saints as the patrons of so many causes that I became used to thinking of saints as being limited to the scope that church has named them patron of. I shouldn’t be thinking solely in that limited term. That is why I framed the opening question the way that I did.
Merry Christmas to all and enjoy the time with your families.
Regards…
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Namwalker
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Just wanted to drop a line and give sort of a preliminary update on my son and his wife short returning passage through the academic world. So far that are doing well and I am dailing offering prayers for their success. They a going to school at night and are so far pulling “A’s and B’s”. Although I wish that each of them had done this earlier when their respective parents were footing the education bills, sometimes the best lessons are the one’s that cost the most and paid dearly.
Hard lessons are remembers better than easy ones. I truly wish them all the best and my wife and I are standing by to help in any fashion that we can and they will let us. I just hope that they are not to proud to accept what could be given if needed.
I learned hard lessons that I hope my kids don’t have to learn.
May god keep them in the hollow of his hand as they pass through life.
Hard lessons are remembers better than easy ones. I truly wish them all the best and my wife and I are standing by to help in any fashion that we can and they will let us. I just hope that they are not to proud to accept what could be given if needed.
I learned hard lessons that I hope my kids don’t have to learn.
May god keep them in the hollow of his hand as they pass through life.
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