Patronage
3 saints are venerated as patrons of poor, led by Anthony of Padua (feast day June 13).
1195 — 1231 · Feast day: June 13
A Portuguese Franciscan friar renowned for his scriptural mastery and preaching that drew crowds of thousands across Italy and France. Canonized less than a year after his death in 1231, he is invoked as patron of lost things and the poor. St. Francis himself authorized him to teach theology to the friars.
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.
1488 AD — September 8, 1555 AD · Feast day: September 22
Thomas of Villanova gave away his clothes as a boy and the furnishings of his episcopal palace as archbishop. Charles V exclaimed after hearing him preach: 'This monsignor can move even the stones!' Known as the 'Father of the Poor,' this Augustinian archbishop arrived in Valencia to find a neglected see and proceeded to reform it parish by parish — dying in his patched friar's habit in 1555.