Health and illness

Which saint to pray to for cancer?

This intention only includes sources that name cancer or a tumor. The associations are historical and devotional, never medical.

Please note. Sancteo presents traditions of intercession and hagiographical accounts. These resources do not replace medical, psychological, legal, social, or pastoral support, nor emergency services.

Direct devotional link

Saints traditionally invoked

The patronage or traditional use of invocation is explicitly preserved in Sancteo’s data.

Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz20th century · August 19th

Documented patronage

« Cancer patients »

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Isidore of Saint Joseph20th century · October 6th

Documented patronage

« cancer patients »

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Saint Aldegonde of Maubeuge7th century · January 30th

Documented invocation

« cancer »

Internal reference : saint_invoquee_pour.value

Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch (the Younger)5th century · January 11th

Documented invocation

« healing of cancer »

Internal reference : saint_invoquee_pour.value

Maria Cristina Cella Mocellin20th century · October 22nd

Documented invocation

« Healing from cancer »

Internal reference : saint_invoquee_pour.value

Wilhelm Janauschek20th century · June 30th

Documented invocation

« cancer patients »

Internal reference : saint_invoquee_pour.value

Light from the corpus

Saints linked by a miracle account

These figures are not presented as patron saints: their presence is explained by an account directly classified under this intention.

Narcisa de Jesús19th century · December 8th

Directly related account

« Healing of Juan Pesántez Peñaranda from a cancerous tumor after praying to Narcisita in a dream (1967) »