Protection and safety

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

• St. BarbaraThe tower, the lightning bolt, and the promise of not dying unprepared.
• St. BarnabasSon of encouragement: he vouched for Paul when everyone was afraid, and for Mark when Paul would not.
• St. Benedict of NursiaWrote the rule that shaped western monasticism, and is asked to pray for protection against evil.
• St. Erasmus (Elmo)The sailors’ saint of the glowing masthead, whose windlass became, by pure misreading, a mercy for stomach ailments.
• St. FlorianThe Roman officer drowned for protecting Christians, and the firefighters' saint.
• St. GenevieveThe woman who told Paris not to flee Attila, and was right.
• St. GeorgeThe soldier-martyr behind the dragon legend, where the courage is the historical part.
• St. Ignatius of LoyolaA vain soldier rebuilt by a cannonball, who wrote the manual for finding what God wants from you.
• St. JanuariusBishop-martyr of Naples, whose relic the city watches three times a year with held breath.
• St. Joan of ArcThe teenager who led armies, was burned by a rigged court, and was proven right forever.
• St. José Sánchez del RíoFourteen years old, given every chance to renounce, and he would not.
• St. Leo the GreatRode out to meet Attila, and the Hun turned around.
• St. Luigi OrioneOnly charity will save the world: he ran toward two earthquakes and dug with his hands.
• St. Margaret of AntiochThe legend even her medieval editors doubted, and the patron women in labour have trusted for a thousand years.
• St. Martin of ToursThe soldier who cut his cloak in half for a freezing beggar, and the patron of everyone leaving the military.
• St. MauriceCommander of the Theban Legion: Egyptian soldiers who refused the unjust order, at the cost of the whole legion.
• St. Michael the ArchangelAsked to pray for protection, especially by people whose work puts them in danger.
• St. Nuno Álvares PereiraPortugal’s greatest general, who ended his days a Carmelite lay brother answering to Nuno of St. Mary.
• St. PantaleonThe emperor’s physician who treated the poor free: he lapsed once, came back, and paid the full price.
• St. Pier Giorgio FrassatiVerso l’alto: the mountain climbing student whose secret poor filled his funeral.
• St. ScholasticaBenedict's twin sister, who prayed up a thunderstorm to keep her brother one more night.
• St. SebastianThe officer executed twice: he survived the arrows, went back, and finished the martyrdom.
• St. VitusA boy of the persecutions whose name medicine borrowed: patron of epilepsy, dancers, and performers.