Born

16 July 1194 at Assisi, Italy

Died

11 August 1253 of natural causes

Canonized

26 September 1255 by Pope Alexander IV

Patronage

• embroiderers, needle workers

• eyes, against eye disease

• for good weather

• gilders, gold workers, goldsmiths

• laundry workers

• telegraphs

• telephones

• television (proclaimed on 14 February 1958 by Pope Pius XII)

• television writers

• Poor Clares

• Assisi, Italy

• Santa Clara Indian Pueblo

Representation

• host

• monstrance

• woman with a monstrance in her hand(s)