Patron Saint of Air Travelers

Our Lady of Loreto is invoked as patron of air travelers. The Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto commemorates the small stone house, the Santa Casa, venerated within the Basilica of the Holy House at Loreto on the Italian Adriatic coast. According to a tradition first attested in writing in the fifteenth century, the house was the dwelling of Mary at Nazareth where she received the Annunciation and the Holy Family lived after the return from Egypt; when the Holy Land fell definitively to Muslim forces in 1291, the Santa Casa is said to have been miraculously translated, first to Tersatto in Dalmatia (1291) and then to Loreto (1294). Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino is invoked as patron of air travelers. Joseph Desa was born in 1603 in the small village of Cupertino in the Kingdom of Naples. He was an extraordinarily poor student and was widely thought to be slow-witted; in his early years he was dismissed from one religious community after another for inability to learn. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20040918_giuseppe-copertino_en.html.