Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of publishers, led by John the Evangelist (feast day December 27).
6 — 100 · Feast day: December 27
John the Evangelist, 'the Disciple whom Jesus loved,' was the only apostle to stand at the foot of the Cross. His Gospel opens in eternity — 'In the beginning was the Word' — and his letters distill the Christian life into a single command: love one another. He survived exile to Patmos, where he received the visions of Revelation, and died in Ephesus the last living eyewitness of Christ.
August 16, 1815 — January 31, 1888 · Feast day: January 31
John Bosco saw Turin's destitute youth flooding into prisons and factories and answered with a new kind of education. From a single borrowed room in 1844, he built schools, workshops, and oratories — gathering thousands of street boys not with threats but with reason, religion, and affection. That method, which he called the Preventive System, became the founding charter of the Salesians, a global order still operating in his name.