Patron Saint of Workers

Saint Joseph is invoked as patron of workers. Joseph of Nazareth, descendant of David through Solomon according to Saint Matthew and through Nathan according to Saint Luke, was the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster father of Jesus Christ. The Gospels record him as a just man (Matthew 1:19) and identify his trade as that of a tekton, generally translated as carpenter or builder (Matthew 13:55).Saint Matthew records that on learning of Mary's pregnancy he resolved to put her away quietly, but was instructed in a dream by an angel to take her as his wife and name the child Jesus. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15081889_quamquam-pluries.html.

Saint Joseph the Worker is invoked as patron of workers. Saint Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary and foster-father of Jesus Christ, is honored by the Church under multiple titles. The Optional Memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker on May 1 was instituted by Pope Pius XII on May 1, 1955, in his address to the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI), in order to sanctify human labor and to set the Christian witness of work in counterpoint to the secular International Workers' Day.The Gospels describe Joseph as a craftsman or carpenter (Greek tekton, Matthew 13:55), a just man (Matthew 1:19) of the house and lineage of David. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1955/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19550501_san-giuseppe.html.

Saint Bonaventure is invoked as patron of workers. Saint Bonaventure was born Giovanni di Fidanza at Bagnoregio in central Italy about 1217. According to a tradition he himself records, his mother promised him to Saint Francis of Assisi after the saint's prayers obtained his cure from a childhood illness; the name Bonaventure (good fortune), it is said, was Francis's exclamation on seeing the recovered child. Sources: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20100303.html.

Saint Cajetan is invoked as patron of workers. Saint Cajetan (Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene) was born of noble parents at Vicenza in the Republic of Venice in October 1480. He took doctorates in civil and canon law from the University of Padua in 1504, served as a protonotary apostolic at the Roman Curia under Pope Julius II, and was ordained priest at Rome on September 30, 1516.At Rome he joined the Oratory of Divine Love, an early Catholic Reform sodality of priests and laymen at the church of Saints Sylvester and Dorothy in Trastevere, where the principles of the future Counter-Reformation were taking shape under the influence of Saint John of God's predecessors, Cardinal Carafa, and others. Sources: https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf.