Patron Saint of Miscarriage

Saint Gerard Majella is the most widely invoked patron of expectant mothers and is traditionally called upon against miscarriage and for a safe delivery. A Redemptorist lay brother who died in 1755, he became associated with motherhood through an incident in which a handkerchief he left behind was credited, years later, with saving a woman in danger of death in childbirth. Mothers across the Catholic world pray his novena for the protection of their pregnancies. Sources: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06467c.htm.

Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, a physician and mother canonised in 2004, is a patron of mothers, the unborn, and those facing difficult or dangerous pregnancies. Having herself known the sorrow of miscarriage before giving her own life for her fourth child, she is a powerful intercessor for women who carry the grief of pregnancy loss and for those who fear for the lives of their children. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20040516_canonizations.html.

Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are invoked by couples who long for a child and by families carrying sorrow or anxiety. According to ancient tradition they conceived Mary only after many years of childlessness, and they are therefore a sign of hope and a source of comfort for parents who grieve a loss or wait in uncertainty. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.