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Who Is the Patron Saint of Lost Causes And Hopeless Cases?
Saint Jude Thaddeus · Feast day October 28
The patron saint of lost causes and hopeless cases is Saint Jude Thaddeus, whose feast day is October 28.
Who was Saint Jude Thaddeus?
Saint Jude was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, often called Thaddeus to distinguish him from Judas Iscariot. Little is written of him in the Gospels, and for centuries few prayed to him because his name was so easily confused with the betrayer's.
Why the patron of lost causes and hopeless cases?
Precisely because he was so overlooked, a devotion grew that he would eagerly help those in the most desperate and forgotten situations, making him the beloved patron of lost causes and hopeless cases.
In the Word
For with God nothing shall be impossible.Luke 1:37 (KJV)
A note for all traditions: patron saints are honored in the Catholic and Orthodox churches as examples of faith and as friends who pray with us, never worshiped, for worship belongs to God alone. Many Protestant Christians honor the saints as examples without asking their intercession. Across all traditions, there is one Lord and one mediator between God and us, the man Christ Jesus, and every one of us, not only the saints, is called to holiness and to him.
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