Chapter Saints to Sakhrat of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Spectacle-Makers, St. Fridolin, whose day is March 6.

Sportsmen, St. Hubert. (See above, “Huntsmen.”)

Statuaries, St. Veronica. (See above, “Portrait-painters.”)

Stonemasons, St. Peter (John i. 42).

Students, St. Catharine, noted for her great learning.

Surgeons, St. Cosme, who practised medicine in Cilicia gratuitously (died 310).

Sweethearts, St. Valentine, because in the Middle Ages ladies held their “courts of love” about this time. (See Valentine.)

Swineherds and Swine, St. Anthony.

Tailors, St. Goodman, who was a tailor.

Tanners, St. Clement, the son of a tanner.

Tax-Collectors, St. Matthew (Matt. ix. o).

Tentmakers, St. Paul and St. Aquila, who were tentmakers (Acts xviii. 3).

Thieves (against), St. Dismas, the penitent thief. St. Ethelbert, St. Elian, St. Vincent, and St. Vinden, who caused stolen goods to be restored.

Tinners, St Pieran, who crossed over the sea to Ireland on a millstone. His day ought to be February 30.

Travellers, St. Raphael, because he assumed the guise of a traveller in order to guide Tobias from Nineveh to Ragês (Tobit v.).

Upholsterers, St. Paul.

Vintners and Vineyards, St. Urban.

Virgins, St. Winifred and St. Nicholas.

Weavers, St. Stephen.

Wheelwrights, St. Boniface, the son of a wheel-wright.

Wigmakers, St. Louis.

Wise Men, St. Cosme, St. Damian, and St. Catharine.

Woolcombers and Staplers, St. Blaise, who was torn to pieces by “combes of yren.”

(4) Saints for Special Parts of the Body—

For the belly, St. Erasmus; the head, St. Otilia; the neck, St. Blaise; the teeth, St. Appolonia; the thighs, St. Burgard, St. Roche, St. Quirinus, and St. John; the throat, St. Katharine and St. Blaise.

(5) Saints for Dumb Animals, or for defence against them—