Mental and emotional

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

• St. Alphonsus LiguoriA lawyer, a moral theologian, and a lifelong sufferer of scrupulosity and crippling arthritis.
• St. Benedict Joseph LabreRejected by every monastery, he made the road his cell: the homeless pilgrim of Rome.
• St. DymphnaAsked for by people carrying anxiety, depression, and mental illness.
• St. JeromeGave the West its Bible from a cave in Bethlehem: brilliant, cranky, and honest about it.
• St. John of GodA soldier turned hospital founder, asked for by heart patients and the mentally ill.
• St. John XXIIIThe caretaker pope who opened the windows, and told parents to give their children a caress from him.
• St. LawrenceShown the fire, he kept the Church’s books and its jokes: the treasures are the poor.
• St. Louise de MarillacAn anxious widow who became the co-architect of organized charity, and the patron of social workers.
• St. PatrickTaken as a slave, went back freely, and is asked to pray for people facing fear.
• St. Peter DamianOrphan, swineherd, hermit, cardinal, and a man who spent thirty years begging to be sent back to his cell.
• St. Philip NeriThe Apostle of Rome, who made cheerfulness a discipline and jokes a cure for pride.
• St. Pio of PietrelcinaA confessor who heard confessions for fifty years, and bore the stigmata.
• St. UbaldusThe gentle bishop of Gubbio, asked for eight centuries to pray for people troubled by obsessive fear or harassment.