Who is the patron saint of mental illness? We hear much today about the need to help the mentally ill, dejected and depressed. But for those who would rather pray than pay for help, to which saint should those troubled souls appeal for their intercession for cure and recovery?
It may seem like a question easily solved by consultation with the Oxford Dictionary of Saints. But when I consulted my copy, given to me by my parents at Moor Park school on 9 June 1979, on my confirmation, I realised that saints are chronicled by name and not by their special cause of veneration (many have several).
