Patron Saint of Tailors

Saint Matthias is invoked as patron of tailors. Saint Matthias was chosen by lot to take the place of Judas Iscariot among the Twelve Apostles after the Ascension of the Lord and before Pentecost (Acts 1:15-26). The criterion Saint Peter set for his election was that the candidate had accompanied Jesus and the apostles all the time the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, and so could be a witness to his Resurrection. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20061018.html.

Saint Boniface is invoked as patron of tailors. Saint Boniface, born Winfrid about 675 in Wessex, England, became a Benedictine monk at Exeter and then at Nursling in Hampshire, where he was ordained priest about 715. After an unsuccessful first mission to Frisia in 716, he traveled to Rome in 718, where Pope Gregory II commissioned him to evangelize the Germanic peoples east of the Rhine and gave him the name Boniface (good-doer).Boniface preached in Hesse, Thuringia, and Bavaria. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20090311.html.

The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist is invoked as patron of tailors. The Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist celebrates the birth of the forerunner of Christ to the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, kinswoman of the Virgin Mary, in the hill country of Judah (Luke 1:5-25, 57-80). The date of June 24 is set six months before the Nativity of the Lord (December 25), in accord with Luke 1:26 (in the sixth month).John's nativity is one of only three nativities celebrated as Solemnities in the Roman Calendar, alongside those of the Lord (December 25) and the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 8). Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/angelus/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20120624.html.

The Passion of Saint John the Baptist is invoked as patron of tailors. The Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist commemorates the martyrdom of John, son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, forerunner and precursor of Jesus Christ. The principal accounts are in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:7-9), supplemented by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (Antiquities 18.5.2), who locates the execution at the fortress of Machaerus, southeast of the Dead Sea, and confirms its political background.According to the Gospel of Mark, the most detailed account, John had publicly rebuked the tetrarch Herod Antipas (son of Herod the Great) for his unlawful marriage to Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/angelus/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_ang_20040829.html.

Saint Martin of Tours is invoked as patron of tailors. Martin was born around 316 at Sabaria in Roman Pannonia, the son of a tribune in the imperial army. As the son of a soldier he was conscripted into the cavalry around age fifteen and stationed in Gaul. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.