Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Poor people, led by Lawrence of Rome (feast day August 10).
c. 225 AD — 258 AD · Feast day: August 10
Lawrence served as Archdeacon of Rome under Pope Sixtus II, overseeing the Church's treasury and care of the poor. When the Roman prefect demanded he surrender the Church's wealth, he assembled the sick, the crippled, and the destitute and declared, 'These are the treasures of the Church.' Condemned to be roasted alive on a gridiron in 258 AD, he reportedly told his executioners, 'Turn me over — I am done on this side.'
October 28, 1599 — April 30, 1672 · Feast day: April 30
Marie of the Incarnation left a thriving transport business to enter the Ursulines at thirty-two, drawn by a mystic vision of a wilderness she would later recognize as Canada. She sailed to Quebec in 1639, founded the first girls' school in the New World, mastered four Indigenous languages, and wrote some 8,000 to 20,000 letters — the richest firsthand chronicle of colonial New France that survives.