Addiction and recovery

Any of these can be asked. There is no order of precedence and no wrong choice, so pick whoever the story fits.

• St. Bernardine of SienaHe preached the Holy Name to packed piazzas, and told a ruined card maker to print it instead.
• St. Camillus de LellisA gambler who lost everything, then invented modern nursing, asked for by the sick and by gamblers.
• St. Mary of EgyptSeventeen years she later named sin, forty seven alone in the desert: the patron of total turnarounds.
• St. MatthiasChosen by lot to fill the empty seat: the patron of stepping into a hard vacancy.
• St. Maximilian KolbeTook another man's place in a starvation cell at Auschwitz.
• St. MonicaPrayed seventeen years for a son who had left the faith.
• Venerable Matt TalbotA Dublin labourer who drank for sixteen years and stayed sober for forty-one.