Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Hospitals, led by Saint Vincent de Paul (feast day September 27).
1581 — 1660 · Feast day: September 27
Vincent de Paul, born to a Gascon peasant family in 1581, was ordained a priest in 1600. His encounter with a dying peasant who lacked the sacraments, and later his work as chaplain to galley slaves, turned his ambition for a comfortable benefice into a lifelong commitment to the destitute. He founded the Vincentians (1625) and co-founded the Daughters of Charity (1633) with Louise de Marillac.
circa 10 AD — circa 65 AD · Feast day: October 28
Jude Thaddeus walked with Jesus and preached across Mesopotamia and Libya, yet spent centuries nearly invisible, eclipsed by his shared name with Judas Iscariot. That very anonymity made him the patron of desperate causes — those with nowhere else to turn kept saying the prayers worked. His single Gospel moment became his epitaph: 'Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not the world?'