Patron saints
Who Is the Patron Saint of Sailors And Mariners?
Saint Brendan the Navigator · Feast day May 16
The patron saint of sailors and mariners is Saint Brendan the Navigator, whose feast day is May 16.
Who was Saint Brendan the Navigator?
Saint Brendan was an Irish monk of the sixth century famous for a legendary sea voyage in search of a promised land across the ocean, recounted in the medieval tale of the Voyage of Saint Brendan.
Why the patron of sailors and mariners?
As the great seafaring saint, Brendan is a patron of sailors, mariners, and travelers by sea, together with Saint Nicholas.
In the Word
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.Psalm 107:29 (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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