Patron Saint of Mothers

Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God is invoked as patron of mothers. The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, falls on January 1, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord. It is a Holyday of Obligation in the Latin Church and the principal Marian feast of the Roman Calendar, honoring the divine maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Theotokos, "God-bearer."The dogmatic foundation of the feast is the definition of the Council of Ephesus (431), which condemned Nestorius and taught that the one Christ is true God and true man, so that Mary, who bore him in the flesh, is rightly called Mother of God. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html.

Saints Perpetua and Felicity is invoked as patron of mothers. Vibia Perpetua was a young noblewoman of Carthage, about twenty-two years old, married, and nursing an infant son. Felicity was a slave woman who was eight months pregnant at the time of her arrest. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20070207.html.

The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church is invoked as patron of mothers. The Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, is observed on the Monday after Pentecost. It was inserted into the General Roman Calendar by Pope Francis through the Decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments dated February 11, 2018, signed by Cardinal Robert Sarah.The title Mother of the Church (Mater Ecclesiae) was solemnly proclaimed of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Blessed Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964, at the close of the Third Session of the Second Vatican Council, in his speech promulgating the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20180211_decreto-mater-ecclesiae_en.html.

Saint Monica is invoked as patron of mothers. Saint Monica was born about 332 at Thagaste in Roman Numidia (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), of a Christian Berber family. The principal source for her life is her son's Confessions, especially Book IX, where Augustine has given us perhaps the most extended and personal portrait of any woman in Christian antiquity. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20090422.html.