Patron Saint of Unborn

Our Lady of Guadalupe is invoked as patron of the unborn. The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe commemorates the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the hill of Tepeyac, north of Mexico City, between December 9 and 12, 1531, ten years after the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan to Hernan Cortes. In the four apparitions, Mary - speaking in Nahuatl, dressed as a young pregnant Indigenous noblewoman, with the moon under her feet and rays of the sun behind her - identified herself as the perfect ever-Virgin holy Mary, mother of the very true God by whom one lives, and asked that a church be built on Tepeyac for the consolation of the Indigenous peoples and all who would seek her intercession.On December 12, when Juan Diego brought to Bishop Juan de Zumarraga the Castilian roses gathered on the wintry hill at Mary's instruction, his ayate-fiber tilma was found to bear the image now venerated in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City - the most-visited Marian shrine in the world. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_22011999_ecclesia-in-america.html.

The Holy Innocents is invoked as patron of the unborn. The Feast of the Holy Innocents commemorates the male children of Bethlehem and its surroundings, two years old and under, killed by Herod the Great in his attempt to destroy the infant Christ after the Magi failed to return to him with information about the child's whereabouts (Matthew 2:16-18). Matthew sees the slaughter as a fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:15, which he applies to Rachel weeping for her children. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.