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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian

Died: 287

Feast Day: September 26 (New), September 27 (Trad)

Patronage: Doctors, Physicians, Pharmacists, Surgeons, Barbers, Dentists

Saints Cosmas and Damian were twin brothers and skilled doctors born in Cilicia, Turkey. The brothers gave their services for free and in the process attracted many souls to the then growing number of Christian converts through their daily work and pious life. They treated the poor and wealthy alike without payment, earning the title “The Silverless Ones.” During the period of Christian persecution by Diocletian, they were arrested and tortured, enduring being hung on a cross, stoned and shot at with arrows. Refusing to relinquish their faith, they were finally beheaded.

Saint Giuseppe Moscati

1880 - 1927

Feast Day: November 16

Patronage: bachelors, people rejected by religious orders, physicians

St. Giuseppe Moscati received his doctorate from the University of Naples in 1903 and eventually ran a hospital for the wounded where he personally treated almost 3,000 soldiers. He healed (sometimes miraculously), taught at numerous universities and hospitals, and supported the poor and outcast. Sometimes he could diagnose a patient‘s illness and prescribe for it without having seen the patient and knew when and how to use a patient‘s faith and the sacraments to effect a cure. He was the first modern physician to be canonized.