Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Refugees, led by Alban of Britain (feast day June 22).
Unknown, c. AD 300 — c. 305 AD · Feast day: June 22
Saint Alban was a pagan Roman citizen of Verulamium who sheltered a fugitive Christian priest, converted to his faith within days, then dressed in the priest's robes to face arrest in his place. He was beheaded on Holywell Hill around 305 AD — Britain's first recorded Christian martyr, whose cult gave rise to St Albans Abbey and inspired Bede's most vivid account of Christian heroism.
June 4, 1896 — July 2, 1966 · Feast day: July 2
John of Shanghai and San Francisco was an Eastern Orthodox bishop credited with approximately 100 miracles, who guided thousands of Russian refugees across five continents while living as an ascetic himself. He arrived in Shanghai in 1934, fled the Communist takeover in 1949, and died in 1966 — his relics incorrupt to this day in San Francisco's Holy Virgin Cathedral.