Patron Saint of Cooks

Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus is invoked as patron of cooks. The Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus honors the three siblings of Bethany, the village two miles east of Jerusalem on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives, presented in the Gospels as friends of Jesus and as a privileged household of his earthly ministry. Saint John tells us, Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus (John 11:5).Martha is the figure of active service: she received the Lord into her house at the meal at Bethany, was busy about much serving (Luke 10:38-42), and was rebuked, gently, for being anxious and troubled about many things, while one thing alone is needful, the better part chosen by Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20210126_decreto-celebrazione-marta-maria-lazzaro_en.html.

Saint Lawrence of Rome is invoked as patron of cooks. Saint Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of the Roman Church under Pope Saint Sixtus II and was martyred at Rome on August 10, 258, four days after his bishop. He is traditionally said to have come from the Roman province of Hispania Citerior, from a family of the modern Huesca in Aragon, but the earliest evidence (Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, the Roman Calendar) attests only his deaconate at Rome and his martyrdom there.Saint Ambrose of Milan, in his De officiis ministrorum (1.41) written about 391, gives the earliest extended narrative. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/angelus/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20100808.html.