Travel

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

• St. Brendan the NavigatorThe abbot who sailed west into legend: patron of everyone on the water and everyone setting out.
• St. ChristopherThe traveller's saint, whose story is legend and whose devotion is real.
• St. ColumbanusThe Irishman who walked Europe founding monasteries and correcting kings, adopted, fittingly, by motorcyclists.
• St. Erasmus (Elmo)The sailors’ saint of the glowing masthead, whose windlass became, by pure misreading, a mercy for stomach ailments.
• St. FiacreThe Irish hermit whose garden fed a region, patron of gardeners and, by a Paris accident, of cab drivers.
• St. Frances of RomeForty years a wife in plague era Rome: proof that the vocation you did not choose still counts.
• St. Francis XavierIgnatius's roommate, who carried the faith from India to Japan and died within sight of China.
• St. James the GreaterFirst apostle martyred, and a thousand years of pilgrims still walk to his shrine.
• St. John NepomuceneThrown from the Charles Bridge rather than break a confession’s seal.
• St. Joseph of CupertinoThe slowest student his teachers had ever met, asked for by test takers, and, from the levitations, by pilots.
• St. Nicholas of MyraThe bishop behind Santa Claus: fiercer, poorer, and better than the legend.
• St. Raphael the ArchangelThe archangel of healing, safe travel, and finding the right person.