Saint

Patron Saint of…

Feast Day

Nursery

St Nicholas

Sailors, children, wolves and pawnbrokers.

6^th December

Reception

St Joseph the Worker

Workers and Fathers

19^th March 

1^st May (worker)

Starling

Francis ofAssisi

Animals and Ecology

4^th October

Swallow

St Peter the Apostle

Patron saint of Popes

29^th June

Wren

St Bernadette

Patron of the ill, poor, sheep tenders 

16^th April

Kingfisher

St John Henry Newman

Patron saint of poets

9^th October

Dove

Saint John Paul II

Patron saint of World Youth Day

22^nd October

Woodpecker

St Patrick

Patron saint of Ireland

17^th March

Eagle

St Therese of Lisieux

Missionaries, florists and the sick.

1^st October

Hawk

Saint Oscar Romero

Patron of Caritas Internationalis- Catholic social teaching, particularly the preferential option of the poor.

24th March 

Owl

St John Bosco

Christian apprentices’ editors’ publishers’ schoolchildren young people magicians’

31^st January