According to the Patron Saint Index, Mother Teresa was the patron saint of World Youth Day a few years back. As she is not yet (2014 )a saint, there may be more patronages in the future when she is canonized.
Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of:
against bodily ills
against headaches
against sickness
against the death of parents
lace makers
lace workers
people in need of grace
people in religious orders
people ridiculed for their piety
sick people
World Youth Day 2011
Amos, Canada, diocese of
Avellaneda-Lanús, Argentina, diocese of
Berzano di Tortona, Italy
Pozega, Croatia
Spain
Teresa is the patron of:
•against bodily ills
•against headaches
•against sickness
•against the death of parents
•lace makers
•lace workers
•people in need of grace
•people in religious orders
•people ridiculed for their piety
•sick people
•World Youth Day 2011
•Amos, Canada, diocese of
•Berzano di Tortona, Italy
•Pozega, Croatia
•Spain
Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of:
•against bodily ills
•against headaches
•against sickness
•against the death of parents
•lace makers
•lace workers
•people in need of grace
•people in religious orders
•people ridiculed for their piety
•sick people
•World Youth Day 2011
•Amos, Canada, diocese of
•Berzano di Tortona, Italy
•Pozega, Croatia
•Spain
There is no patron saint of gutters. However, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was sometimes referred to as the Saint of the Gutters because she would wander the streets of Calcutta, India, looking for the sick and dying to take back to her hospital to care for them and see to it that they did not die alone and forgotten on the streets. Mother Teresa has not yet been canonized.
Mother Teresa's patron saint was St. Therese of Lisieux.
Mother Teresa's patron saint was St. Therese of Lisieux.
Mother Teresa is not yet a saint. However, she was named as the patron saint of World Youth Day aa few years back.
Mother Teresa was named as the patron saint of World Youth Day a few years back. She has no other patronages at this time.
The Blessed Virgin Mary has countless patronages, because she is the Mother Of God.
Mother Teresa wanted to take as her patron Saint Therese of Lisieux but that name was already taken by another sister of Loreto. She chose to use the Spanish spelling of the name instead - Teresa.
The Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of th Sorrowful Mother is the patron.
It is traditional for religious to take a new name when they join a religious order. In the Sisters of Loreto, when a woman makes her final vows, she take the title of Mother. Mother Teresa took the name Teresa in honor of St. Therese of Lisieux, a patron saint of missionaries.
Anne was the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
St. Therese of Lisieux who is a patron saint of the missions.
Mother is the name given to the leader of a religious order of nuns, but even before she founded the Missionaries of Charity, she was a teaching sister of Loretto. The nuns of that order are addressed as "Mother" when they were fully professed.When she took her first vows she was called Sister Teresa. Later on she took her final vows and was called Mother Teresa.