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This is a list of patron saints of places by nation, region, and town or city. If a place is not listed here, it may be listed in "Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary".

Continents

Patron saints by regions
Patron saints of Europe
Continent Patron saint Notes
Asia Francis Xavier[1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent.[2][3]
Africa Moses the Black
Our Lady of Africa 		Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent.[4]
The Americas

The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe)[5][6]
Rose of Lima (Rosa de Lima)[7][8]
Óscar Romero
Herman of Alaska[9]

Antarctica The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Snows)[10]
John Bosco[11]
Europe Benedict of Nursia[12][13]
Cyril and Methodius[14][15]
Bridget of Sweden[12]
Catherine of Siena[12]
Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)[12] 		Benedict of Nursia is the main patron saint,[16] the others are considered co-patrons.[17]
The Virgin Mary (It is believed the whole of Europe was granted protection under Our Lady of Europe in the 14th century[18])
Oceania Peter Chanel[19]

Geographical regions

Region Patron saint
Anatolia John the Apostle
Australasia The Virgin Mary (as Mary Help of Christians[20])
Central Africa The Immaculate Heart of Mary[21]
Central America Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
Óscar Romero
Rose of Lima[8]
East Indies Thomas the Apostle[22]
Indies Rose of Lima[8]
Latin America The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe)[23]
North Africa (Libya, Tunisia) Cyprian[21]
Scandinavia Ansgar[12]
South America Rose of Lima[12][22][8]
West Indies Gertrude the Great
Pope Gregory I
Far East Francis Xavier

Countries

St. Henry the bishop

This list only includes sovereign states. Subdivisions, such as the constituent countries of the United Kingdom, are listed below under "Administrative subdivisions".

Country Patron saint
 Albania The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Good Counsel[12])
 Andorra The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Meritxell)
 Angola The Immaculate Heart of Mary[12][24]
 Argentina The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Luján[12])
Francis Solanus
Laura Vicuña
Martin of Tours
 Armenia Gregory the Illuminator[12]
Bartholomew the Apostle
Jude the Apostle
Mesrop Mashtots
 Australia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady Help of Christians)[25]
Mary of the Cross MacKillop[26]
George
Andrew
Patrick
 Austria Joseph[24]
Colman of Stockerau[27]
Florian[24]
Leopold the Good
Maurice[24]
Severinus of Noricum
Vergilius of Salzburg
The Virgin Mary[22]
 Azerbaijan Bartholomew the Apostle[28]
Elisæus of Albania[29]
The Virgin Mary, Protector of Caucasus
John of Baku[30]
 Bangladesh Francis Xavier
 Barbados Andrew[31]
 Belarus Cyril of Turov
Euphrosyne of Polotsk[32]
 Belgium Joseph[12][22]
 Belize George
 Bolivia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Candelaria,[12] Our Lady of Copacabana,[12] and Our Lady of Mount Carmel[33])
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Elijah[34]
 Brazil The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Aparecida)[12][33]
Peter of Alcantara[12]
Joseph of Anchieta[35]
 Brunei Francis Xavier
 Bulgaria Cyril and Methodius
John of Rila
 Cambodia Joseph
Joseph Chhmar Salas
 Cameroon The Blessed Virgin Mary (Immaculate Heart of Mary)
 Canada Jean de Brébeuf
Joseph
Anne[12][22]
Saint George[22]
the Canadian Martyrs[5]
Andrew[citation needed]
Patrick[citation needed]
 Chile The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Mount Carmel)[12]
James the Greater[12][22]
Teresa of Los Andes
 China The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Sheshan)
Joseph[12]
Francis Xavier
 Colombia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá)
Louis Bertrand[12]
Peter Claver[12]
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena[12]
 Costa Rica The Virgin Mary (as Virgen de los Ángeles, also known as La Negrita)[36]
 Croatia Joseph (by the decision of the Croatian Parliament from 1687 he is the official patron saint of Croatia)
Jerome
Cyril and Methodius
 Cuba The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Charity[12])
 Cyprus Barnabas[37]
Lazarus
Marina the Martyr
 Czech Republic Adalbert of Prague
Agnes of Bohemia
John of Nepomuk
Ludmila
Cyril and Methodius
Procopius
Sigismund
Wenceslaus
Vitus
 Democratic Republic of Congo The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[38])[22]
Joseph
 Denmark Ansgar[12]
Canute IV[12]
 Dominican Republic The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Altagracia and Our Lady of Mercy[39][40][41])
Dominic[12]
 East Timor Our Lady of Immaculate
 Ecuador The Sacred Heart of Jesus[12]
The Immaculate Heart of Mary[42]
Mary Anne de Paredes (Spanish: Mariana de Paredes y Flores)
Our Lady of El Cisne[43]
 Egypt Mark the Evangelist[42]
Maurice
 El Salvador The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Peace[12])
The Transfigured Jesus (the Divine Savior of the World)
 Equatorial Guinea The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[12])
The Transfiguration of Jesus (as the Divine Savior of the World)
 Ethiopia Frumentius
George[12]
 Faroe Islands Olav the Holy
 Fiji Peter
 Finland Henry of Uppsala[12][22]
 France The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption[12])
The Archangel Michael
Denis of Paris[22]
Martin of Tours
Louis IX
Joan of Arc[12]
Remi
Thérèse de Lisieux[12]
Petronilla
Radegund
Maurice
 Georgia George[12]
Nino
 Germany Adalbert of Magdeburg
Ansgar[44]
Boniface[12]
Bruno of Cologne
Peter Canisius
Kilian of Würzburg
The Archangel Michael[22][12]
Suitbert of Kaiserswerdt
George
Maurice
 Greece The Virgin Mary (as the Panagia)
George
Andrew
Nicholas of Myra
Paul the Apostle[45]
 Greenland Hans Egede[46][47]
 Guam The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Camarin)
 Guatemala The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Rosary)
James the Greater[45]
Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
 Haiti The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Perpetual Succor[45])
 Honduras The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Suyapa[45])
 Hong Kong The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)[48]
Joseph
Francis Xavier
Anna Wang
 Hungary The Virgin Mary
Adalbert of Prague
Astricus
Emeric of Hungary (Hungarian: Imre)
Cyril[49]
Gerard Sagredo
Stephen of Hungary[12][22]
Elizabeth of Hungary
 Iceland Ansgar[50]
Thorlac Thorhallsson[12]
 India The Blessed Virgin Mary (Our Lady of the Assumption)
Thomas the Apostle
Francis Xavier
 Indonesia The Blessed Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Perpetual Help)
Joseph
Thomas
Francis Xavier
 Iran Maruthas
Joseph
 Ireland Patrick[22][51]
Columba[12]
Brigid of Kildare[52]
 Israel The Archangel Michael[53]
 Italy Catherine of Siena[12]
Francis of Assisi[12]
Maurice
 Jamaica The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption
George
 Japan Peter Baptist[12]
Joseph
Francis Xavier
Our Lady of Akita
 Jordan John the Baptist[50]
Kenya Kenya The Virgin Mary (as Mary, Queen of Love)[54]
George
 Korea The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
Joseph
Andrew Kim Taegon
Paul Chong Hasang
Korean Martyrs
 Latvia George
 Lebanon The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Lebanon)
Barbara
Charbel Makhlouf
 Lesotho The Immaculate Heart of Mary[12][42]
 Lithuania Casimir[55]
George[56]
 Luxembourg Cunigunde of Luxemburg[6][12]
Willibrord[12]
 Macau The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
John the Baptist
Joseph
Francis Xavier
Catherine of Siena
 Madagascar Vincent de Paul
 Malaysia Francis Xavier
George
 Malta The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption and Our Lady of Victories)[12]
Paul the Apostle[12]
Agatha of Sicily
Publius
George (patron saint of Gozo, one of the Maltese islands)
Ursula (patron saint of Gozo since the seventeenth century, the second largest island in the Maltese Archipelago)
 Mauritius Louis IX of France
 Mexico The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe[12][22])
Philip of Jesus
Joseph[57]
 Moldova George
 Monaco Devota[58]
 Mozambique Immaculate Conception
 Netherlands Plechelm
Willibrord[12][22]
 New Caledonia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption[19])
 New Zealand The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption[12])
Joseph

Peter Chanel[59]
George
Andrew
Patrick

 Nicaragua James the Greater[19]
The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
 Nigeria Patrick[19]
 North Macedonia Clement of Ohrid
Cyril and Methodius
 Norway Olaf II (known as Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae)[12][22]
Magnus of Orkney[19]
 Pakistan Francis Xavier[60]
George
 State of Palestine The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady, Queen of Palestine)
George
 Papua New Guinea The Archangel Michael
Andrew
George
Joseph
 Paraguay The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Caacupé[60])
Martin of Tours[12]
 Peru Rose of Lima
Turibius of Mogroveio
Joseph[12]
 Philippines The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mary, Help of Christians, Our Lady of Perpetual Help[12][60] and her Immaculate Heart[12])
Lorenzo Ruíz
Pedro Calungsod
Pudentiana
Rose of Lima
Santo Niño de Cebú
 Poland The Virgin Mary (as The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland and Our Lady of Częstochowa)[12]
Adalbert of Prague[61]
Stanislaus of Cracow[12]
Stanislaus Kostka
Andrew Bobola
Jadwiga of Poland
Casimir[55]
Hyacinth
Kinga of Poland[12]
John of Kanty
Florian
Wenceslaus
John of Dukla
Hedwig of Silesia
Pope John Paul II
 Portugal The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)[12]
Anthony of Padua[12]
The Guardian Angel of Portugal
George[12][22]
 Romania Virgin Mary
Andrew
Stephen the Great
George
Parascheva
John of Suceava
 Russia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady Derzhavnaya)
Alexander Nevsky
Andrew[62]
Basil the Great[63]
Casimir[63]
George
Joseph[63]
Vladimir I of Kiev
Boris and Gleb
Sergius of Radonezh
Thérèse of Lisieux
 Rwanda Christ the King
Andrew
Joseph
 San Marino Marinus
Nicholas of Myra[12][63]
Agatha
 Serbia Sava[64][65]
Cyril and Methodius
 Singapore Francis Xavier
Joseph
Anna Wang
 Slovakia The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Sorrows)[12]
Cyril and Methodius
 Slovenia Joseph
Cyril and Methodius
 Solomon Islands The Archangel Michael[66]
 South Africa George
Martin of Tours[12]
 Spain The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)[66]
James the Greater[22]
Teresa of Ávila[12]
 Sri Lanka Francis Xavier
Lawrence[12]
Joseph Vaz
Thomas the Apostle
The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Lanka and Our Lady of Madhu)
George
 Sudan Josephine Bakhita
 Sweden Bridget of Sweden[67][22]
Eric IX[12]
Sigfrid of Sweden
  Switzerland Gall
Nicholas of Flue[68]
 Syria Barbara
 Taiwan The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
Joseph
Anna Wang
 Tanzania The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[67])
George
 Thailand The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Assumption)
Joseph
 Tunisia Cyprian of Carthage[24]
 Turkey John the Apostle[69]
George
Uganda Uganda Uganda Martyrs[70]
The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Africa)[71]
 Ukraine Andrew
George
Vladimir I of Kiev
 Uruguay The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of the Thirty-Three[72])
James the Less
Philip the Apostle[73]
 United States The Virgin Mary (as Mary of the Immaculate Conception)[74]
The Archangel Michael
George
Andrew
Patrick
 Venezuela The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Coromoto[67])
 Vietnam Joseph
Vietnamese Martyrs

Former Countries

Country Patron saint
 Kingdom of Bosnia Gregory the Miracle-Worker[75]
 Duchy of Burgundy Andrew the Apostle
 Czechoslovakia Adalbert of Prague[44]
John of Nepomuk[12]
Ludmila
Cyril and Methodius[44]
Wenceslaus[12]
 Flanders Willibrord
Medieval Livonia Theotokos
 Duchy of Lorraine Nicholas of Myra
 Prussia Adalbert of Prague
Dorothy of Montau
Jutta of Kulmsee
Andrew the Apostle
 Moldavia John of Suceava
 Kingdom of Serbia Vitus[76]
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Cyril and Methodius[38]
 Republic of Genoa Saint George
 Duchy of Milan Saint Ambrose
 Republic of Venice Saint Mark
Theodore[77]
 Republic of Ragusa Saint Blaise
 Holy Roman Empire Maurice

Administrative subdivisions

Country Subdivision Patron saint
 Argentina  Buenos Aires Martin of Tours
 Buenos Aires Province Our Lady of the Rosary, Gervasius and Protasius, Mary Help of Christians, Rita of Cascia, Isidore the Laborer, Virgin of Mercy, Pope Pontian, Black Virgin of Oropa, Mary Magdalene, Joseph, Our Lady of Lourdes, Gabriel, Our Lady of the Pillar, Peter
 Córdoba Jerome
 Corrientes Our Lady of Itatí
 Misiones Joseph
 San Luis Louis IX of France
 Santa Fe Lawrence, Virgin of Mercy, Saint George, Saint Roch, John the Baptist, Our Lady of Itatí, Sacred Heart, Our Lady of the Rosary, Jerome
 Tucumán Isidore the Laborer
 Santa Cruz Mary (as Virgin of the Valley), Our Lady of the Rosary, Mary Help of Christians
 Chubut Our Lady of Guadalupe
La Rioja Province, Argentina La Rioja Nicholas of Bari
 Austria
 Upper Austria Florian
 Styria Joseph
 Carinthia Joseph
 Belgium  Hainaut Waltrude[78]
 Flanders Lutgardis, Amandus
 Bosnia and Herzegovina  Republic of Srpska Stephen
 Brazil
 Acre Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Alagoas Mary (as Our Lady of Joy)
 Amapá Joseph
 Amazonas Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Bahia Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Ceará Joseph
 Distrito Federal John Bosco
 Espírito Santo Holy Spirit
 Goiás Mary ( as Our Lady of Abadia)
 Maranhão Saint Joseph (as Saint Joseph of Ribamar)
 Mato Grosso Jesus Christ (as Our Lord, the Good Jesus)
 Mato Grosso do Sul Mary, as Our Lady of the Abbey
 Minas Gerais Mary (as Our Lady of Piety)
 Pará Mary (as Our Lady of Nazareth)
 Paraíba Mary (as Our Lady of Snows)
 Paraná Mary (as Our Lady of Rocio)
 Pernambuco Mary (as Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
 Piauí Mary (as Our Lady of Victory)
 Rio de Janeiro Sebastian
 Rio Grande do Norte Saint Martyrs of Cunhaú and Uruaçu
 Rio Grande do Sul Peter
 Rondônia Mary (as Our Lady of Nazareth)
 Roraima Mary (as Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
 Santa Catarina Catherine of Alexandria
 São Paulo Paul
 Sergipe Mary (as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception)
 Tocantins Mary (as Our Lady of Nativity)
 Canada  Newfoundland and Labrador John the Baptist
 Nova Scotia Ninian
 Quebec Anne
John the Baptist
 Croatia  Dalmatia Blaise
 Czech Republic  Bohemia Wenceslaus, Ludmila, Vitus, Adalbert of Prague, Agnes of Bohemia,

Procopius, Sigismund of Burgundy, Norbert of Xanten, Joseph,[12] John of Nepomuk

 Moravia Cyril and Methodius,[12] Wenceslaus, Jan Sarkander
 France  Alsace Odile of Alsace
 Auvergne Gerald Aurillac
 Brittany Dedicated: Anna, Ivo of Kermartin; Seven Founders: Corentin of Cornwall, Tudwal of Landreger, Pol-Aorelian of Leon, Padarn of Gwened, Samson of Dol, Brioc, Malo.
 Corsica Julia of Corsica, Devota, Alexander Sauli
 Île-de-France (Paris) Denis, Genevieve
 Lorraine Saint Nicholas, Joan of Arc
 Germany  Bavaria St. Mary Patroness of Bavaria (feast on 1 May), St. Rupert and St. Emmeram (Bavaria proper), St. Kilian and St. Sebaldus (Franconia) and St. Hedwig of Andechs
 Saxony Willehad of Bremen
 Greece Aegina Saint Nectarios
Cephalonia Saint Gerasimos
Chios Saint Markella
Crete Saint Titus
Corfu Saint Spyridon, Saint Arsenius of Corfu
Euboea Saint Paraskevi
Laconia Saint Nikon the Metanoeite
Patmos Saint John the Theologian
Rhodes Saint Phanourios
Skyros Saint George
Tinos Saint Pelagia, Mary (as Our Lady of Tinos)
Zakynthos Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos
 Indonesia Borneo Francis Xavier[22]
 Italy  Cremona Homobonus
 Lombardy Charles Borromeo[22]
 Piedmont Saint Maurice[22]
 Sicily Andrew Avellino, Nicholas of Myra, Rosalia
 Kenya Nyeri Irene Stefani
 Lebanon North Lebanon Awtel
South Lebanon Christina of Bolsena
 Malaysia  Malacca Francis Xavier
 Mexico Chihuahua Our Lady of La Soledad de Parral
Veracruz Rafael Guizar y Valencia
 Philippines Batangas Saint Joseph, Our Lady of Caysasay
Bicol (region) Mary (as Our Lady of Peñafrancia)
 Cagayan Mary (Our Lady of Piat)
 Laguna James the Apostle
 Pampanga Mary (as Virgen de los Remedios)
 Quezon Isidore the Laborer
 Rizal Mary (Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage), Clement of Rome
Western Visayas (region) Mary (as Our Lady of Candelaria)
 Portugal Lisbon Saint Vincent, Saint Anthony, Mary (as Saint Mary Major)
Oporto Mary (as Nossa Senhora de Vandoma, Our Lady of Assumption), Saint John
Coimbra Saint Augustine, Saint Elizabeth, Thomas of Villanova
Braga Saint Martin of Braga, Saint Gerald, Mary (as Our Lady of Assumption), Saint John
 Russia  Kaliningrad Oblast Adalbert of Prague
 Serbia  Vojvodina Cyril and Methodius
 Spain  Andalusia John of Avila, Virgin of Hope of Macarena
 Aragon Our Lady of the Pillar,Agathoclia, Braulio, George
 Asturias Our Lady of Covadonga
Castile Emilian of Cogolla
 Canary Islands Our Lady of Candelaria, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
 Cantabria Our Lady of Aparecida,
 Catalonia George, Virgin of Montserrat
 Ceuta Our Lady of Africa
 Euskadi Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Prudence
 Extremadura Our Lady of Guadalupe, John the Baptist
 Galicia James the Greater[12]
La Rioja La Rioja Our Lady of Valvanera
 Leonese Country Marcellus of Tangier
 Madrid Isidore the Laborer, Virgin of Almudena
 Navarre Fermin, Francis Xavier, Saturnin, Santa María the Royal of Pamplona, Raymond of Penyafort
 Valencia Vincent Ferrer, Our Lady of the Forsaken
 United Kingdom  England George,[12][22] Gregory the Great, Augustine of Canterbury, Edmund the Martyr, Edward the Confessor, Michael the Archangel,[42] Our Lady of Walsingham
 Berkshire Birinus[citation needed]
 Cornwall Piran, Michael the Archangel, Petroc[citation needed]
 Devon Boniface
 East Anglia Edmund the Martyr; Suffolk
 Essex Cedd
The English Fens Guthlac[citation needed]
 Herefordshire Dubricius[citation needed]
 Kent Augustine of Canterbury
 London Saint Paul
 Mercia Chad of Mercia, Bertelin,[79] Alban
 Northumbria Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Oswald
 Sussex Richard of Chichester, Wilfrid
 Wessex Aldhelm, Swithun
 West Riding of Yorkshire Wilfrid
 Wiltshire Osmund
 Northern Ireland Saint Patrick (also see Ireland (above))
 Scotland Andrew the Apostle,[62][22] Margaret of Scotland, Columba,[12][50] Palladius
Barra Finbarr
Eigg Donnán
Galloway Ninian
Lennox Kessog
 Orkney Magnus
 Wales David of Wales[67][22]
 Gibraltar (territory) Bernard of Clairvaux,[80] Mary (as Our Lady of Europe)
 Guernsey
(sovereign dependency)		 Samson of Dol[81]
 Isle of Man
(sovereign dependency)		 Maughold[82]
 Jersey
(sovereign dependency)		 Helier[83]
 United States  Alabama Our Lady of the Gulf[84][85]
 Alaska St. Herman of Alaska, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Our Lady of the Kodiak and the Islands[84][85]
 Arizona Our Lady of the Highways[84][85]
 Arkansas Our Lady of the Holy Souls[84][85]
 California St. Junipero Serra, Our Lady of the Refuge, Our Lady of the Wayside[84][85]
 Colorado St. Francis of Assisi, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[84][85]
 Connecticut Notre Dame of Easton[84][85]
 Delaware Our Lady of Mercy[84][85]
 Florida Our Lady of La Leche[84][85]
 Georgia Immaculate Heart of Mary[84][85]
 Hawaii Father Damien, St. Marianne Cope, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Our Lady Queen of Peace[84][85]
 Idaho Our Lady of Limerick[84][85]
 Illinois Our Lady of the Universe[84][85]
 Indiana St. Théodore Guérin, Our Lady of Providence[84][85]
 Iowa Mary of Nazareth[84][85]
 Kansas Mary Queen of Angels[84][85]
 Kentucky Mary Mother of God[84][85]
 Louisiana Our Lady of Prompt Succor[84][85]
 Maine Our Lady of Peace[84][85]
 Maryland St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Our Lady of the Assumption[84][85]
 Massachusetts St. Patrick, Our Lady of the Incarnation[84][85]
 Michigan Our Lady Gate of Heaven[84][85]
 Minnesota Our Lady Mother of the Church[84][85]
 Mississippi Our Lady of Sorrows[84][85]
 Missouri Our Lady of Calvary[84][85]
 Montana Our Lady of the Pines[84][85]
 Nebraska Our Lady of the Presentation[84][85]
 Nevada Our Lady of Las Vegas[84][85]
 New Hampshire Our Lady of Perpetual Help[84][85]
 New Jersey Our Lady of Fatima[84][85]
 New Mexico Our Lady of Guadalupe[84][85]
 New York St. Nicholas, Our Lady Help of Christians[84][85]
 North Carolina Our Lady of the Holy Rosary[84][85]
 North Dakota Mary Queen of Peace[84][85]
 Ohio Our Lady of Consolation[84][85]
 Oklahoma Our Lady, Queen of all Saints[84][85]
 Oregon Our Lady of the Woods[84][85]
 Pennsylvania Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal[84][85]
 Puerto Rico Our Lady of Providence[86]
 Rhode Island Our Lady of Mount Carmel[84][85]
 South Carolina Mary the Virgin Mother[84][85]
 South Dakota Our Lady of the Prairie[84][85]
 Tennessee Our Lady of Lourdes[84][85]
 Texas Our Lady of the Annunciation[84][85]
 Utah Our Lady of the Snows[84][85]
 Vermont Our Lady of Grace[84][85]
 Virginia Our Lady Queen of the Apostles[84][85]
 Washington Our Lady of Good Help[84][85]
 West Virginia Our Lady of Victory[84][85]
 Wisconsin Our Lady of the Americas[84][85]
 Wyoming Our Lady of the Valley[84][85]

Cities and towns

Catherine of Siena writing

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Canada

Colombia

Croatia

Cuba

Czech Republic

Denmark

Ecuador

Egypt

France

Germany

Greece

Haiti

Hungary

India

Ireland

Italy

Kenya

Lebanon

Lithuania

Madagascar

Malta

Mexico

Montenegro

The Netherlands

Nicaragua

Norway

Peru

Philippines

Our Lady of Peñafrancia in Naga City, Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Tanzania

Turkey

Syria

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Extraterrestrial locations

See also: Religion in space
Mary is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, which the Bishop claimed included the moon.
Location Patron saint Notes
Outer space Joseph of Cupertino Because of his ability to levitate, Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint of astronauts.[110]
Moon Mary, mother of Jesus Mary is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando,[111] which Bishop William Donald Borders claimed included the moon due to a technicality in the 1917 Code of Canon Law which supposedly expanded the diocese's territory to include the moon following the flight of Apollo 11.[112][113][114]

See also

References

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