Saint symbolism: Saints (Q-Z)
# Saint symbolism: Saints (Q-Z)

Symbolism of Christian saints has been used from the very beginnings of the religion. Each saint is said to have led an exemplary life and symbols have been used to tell these stories throughout the history of the Church. A number of Christian saints are traditionally represented by a symbol or iconic motif associated with their life, termed an attribute or emblem, in order to identify them. The study of these forms part of iconography in art history. They were particularly used so that the illiterate could recognize a scene, and to give each of the Saints something of a personality in art. They are often carried in the hand by the Saint.

Attributes often vary with either time or geography, especially between Eastern Christianity and the West. Orthodox images more often contained inscriptions with the names of saints, so the Eastern repertoire of attributes is generally smaller than the Western. Many of the most prominent saints, like Saint Peter and Saint John the Evangelist can also be recognised by a distinctive facial type. Some attributes are general, such as the martyr's palm. The use of a symbol in a work of art depicting a Saint reminds people who is being shown and of their story. The following is a list of some of these attributes.

## Saints listed by name

### Q

* Saint Quentin with two spits
* The arms of Roetgen showing the symbol of Quirinus, the patron saint of Rott, who killed a dragon with a crossed-spear

| Saint | Symbol |
| - | - |
| Quentin | Two spits; vestments of a deacon; with a broken wheel; with a chair to which he is transfixed; with a sword or beheaded, a dove flying from his severed head |
| Quiricus | naked child riding on a wild boar |
| Quirico Pignalberi | Franciscan habit |
| Quirinus of Malmedy | vestments of a priest celebrating mass, dragon |
| Quirinus of Neuss | military attire; knight with lance, sword, hawk; banner or sign with nine balls |
| Quirinus of Sescia | millstone hanging from his neck |
| Quirinus of Tegernsee | orb, scepter |
| Quiteria | palm of martyrdom, with a dog on a lead, with her head in her hands, emerging from the sea |

### R

* Saint Roch showing his plague mark
* Saint Rita of Cascia with her forehead wound
* Saint Remaclus
* Justa and Rufina
* Rosalia
* Romedius with a bear

| Article title | Attributes |
| - | - |
| Rachilidis | Benedictine nun |
| Rafael Arnaiz Barón | Trappist habit |
| Rafael Guízar y Valencia | Bishop's attire |
| Rafaél Manuel Almansa Riaño | Franciscan habit |
| Rafaela Porras Ayllón | Religious habit |
| Rainerius | depicted as a bearded hermit in a hairshirt holding a rosary; as a young pilgrim in a hairshirt carrying a banner with the Pisan cross; as being raised up by devils; or as dying in a hairshirt. |
| Ralph Sherwin | Martyr's palm, banner with the words, "Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus!" |
| Randoald of Grandval | Monastic habit, Martyr's palm, spear |
| Raphael (archangel) | Archangel holding a bottle or flask; Archangel walking with Tobias; Archangel sounding a trumpet; young man carrying a fish; young man carrying a staff |
| Rasso | military attire |
| Rasyphus and Ravennus | palms of martyrdom |
| Raymond Nonnatus | A Mercedarian friar wearing a cardinal's red mozzetta, holding a monstrance and a martyr's palm branch |
| Raymond of Capua | Dominican habit |
| Raymond of Penyafort | skimming across the sea with his cape as both boat and sail |
| Raynald of Nocera | Mitre and Crosier |
| Regina (martyr) | depicted as experiencing the torments of martyrdom, or as receiving spiritual consolation in prison by a vision of a dove on a luminous cross. |
| Reineldis | sword or pilgrim's staff |
| Reinold | Benedictine monk |
| Remaclus | Generally accompanied by a wolf |
| Remigius | dove, book, lamp |
| Reparata | Standing alone or near St. Mary, bearing a martyr's crown and palm; a dove; a banner with a red cross on a white field; sometimes depicted with St. Ansanus |
| Reverianus | Depicted as a cephalophore (holding his head in his hands) |
| Richard Henkes | Priest's cassock |
| Richardis | dressed in Imperial robes with crown and palm, and surrounded by flames; dressed as a nun, with crown laid aside, and burning pieces of wood, as well as a bear and a ploughshare |
| Richard | bishop with overturned chalice |
| Rita Lopes de Almeida | Religious habit |
| Rita of Cascia | roses, roses and figs, crucifix, thorn, robe of a widow or Augustinian habit sometimes with a wound or the marks of a thorn crown on her forehead |
| Robert de Turlande | Benedictine habit, staff |
| Robert Nutter | Dominican friar, Palm of Martyrdom, a hangman's noose |
| Robert of Newminster | depicted as an abbot holding a church |
| Roch | Wound on thigh (plague mark), dog offering bread, Pilgrim's hat, Pilgrim's staff, angel |
| Roger of Cannae | eagle, Pontifical vestments |
| Rolando Rivi | Cassock, Cappello Romano |
| Roman of Đunis | Depicted wearing a monastic habit, gray bearded, clutching unfurled scroll with rosary or holding a gospel book |
| Romano Bottegal | Trappist habit |
| Romanos the Melodist | Young man vested as a deacon, standing on a raised platform in the middle of a church, holding a scroll with his Kontakion of the Nativity written on it. He is surrounded by the Patriarch, the Emperor, and members of the congregation. His icon is often a combined with that of The Protection of the Mother of God, which falls on the same day. Sometimes he is depicted as a deacon holding a censer in his right hand and a small model of a church in his left. |
| Romedius | depicted riding a bear, alongside a tamed bear |
| Romulus of Fiesole | depicted with a wolf due to confusion with the legend of Romulus and Remus; bishop with an arrow broken above his breast; depicted at martyrdom of 4 companions or enthroned among four martyrs |
| Romulus of Genoa | depicted with episcopal dress and a sword in hand |
| Rosa Elena Cornejo Pazmiño | Nun's habit |
| Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé | Nun's habit |
| Rosa Maria Benedetta Gattorno Custo | Nun's habit, crucifix, rosary, stigmata |
| Rosalia | Depicted as a young woman, sometimes holding roses, a cross, book, or skull, and sometimes a spray of lilies. Some images show her holding a chisel and hammer with which she carved her own dedication. She is also seen wearing a crown of roses, attended by winged angels, and often with a view through a cave opening of Palermo Harbor., sometimes she is being crowned by the Divine infant |
| Rose of Lima | crown of thorns, anchor, city, roses, crown of roses, sometimes wearing habit of the Dominican order, rosids |
| Rose of Viterbo | A young woman with a crown of roses, holding a crucifix |
| Róża Czacka | Religious habit |
| Rudolf Komórek | Cassock |
| Rufina and Justa | a model of the Giralda; earthenware pots, bowls and platters; books on which are two lumps of potter's clay; palm of martyrdom; lion, two maidens floating in the Tiber River with weights attached to their necks. |
| Rumbold of Mechelen | Depicted as a bishop with a missioner's cross, or a bearded man with a hoe lying under his feet. He may also be shown murdered near a coffer of money |
| Rupert of Salzburg | Holding a container of salt; wearing clerical clothes including mitre; holding a crosier |

### S

* St. Stephen the Martyr depicted in a dalmatic, with three stones and the martyr's palm
* Saints Scholastica, Benedict and John the Evangelist

| Article title | Attributes |
| - | - |
| Sabbas the Sanctified | Clothed as a monk, often holding a paterissa |
| Sabinian of Troyes | With Patroclus of Troyes; man with throat pierced by a sword; with Saint Sabina of Troyes |
| Saints of the Cristero War | Crown of martyrdom, Martyr's palm, rosary |
| Salome | Thurible |
| Salomone Leclercq | Christian Brothers habit, Palm branch |
| Salonius | Bishop vestment, miter, crosier |
| Salvatore Micalizzi | Cassock |
| Salvius of Amiens | Bishop with a casket of relics of Saint Firminus of Amiens |
| Samuel of Waldebba | Riding a lion |
| Samuel the Confessor | Monk with one eye |
| Satoko Kitahara | Rosary |
| Saturnin | A bishop's mitre, a bishop being dragged by a bull, a bull |
| Saturnina Rodríguez de Zavalía | Religious habit |
| Saturnino López Novoa | Priest's cassock |
| Sativola | scythe, well |
| Sava of Serbia | book |
| Sava Trlajić | Vested as a bishop |
| Scholastica | Habit of a Benedictine nun, dove, Rule of St. Benedict, crozier of an abbess |
| Sebaldus | pilgrim with the staff and the cap and the beard; later represented with the model of his church; sometimes depicted with the coats of arms of the reigning Houses of France and Denmark |
| Sebastian | Tied to a post, pillar or a tree, shot by arrows, crown |
| Sebastián de Aparicio | Oxcart with oxen |
| Sebastian Maggi | Dominican habit |
| Secundus of Abula | episcopal attire |
| Secundus of Asti | military attire, on horseback, sometimes depicted with Saint Maurice and the Theban Legion |
| Selaphiel | Prayer, thurible |
| Senhorinha of Basto | vessel, frog |
| Septimius of Iesi | Episcopal attire |
| Serafino Morazzone | Priest's cassock |
| Seraphim of Sarov | Wearing peasant clothing, often kneeling with his hands upraised in prayer crucifix worn about his neck, hands crossed over chest |
| Seraphin of Montegranaro | Franciscan habit |
| Serapion of Algiers | Palm branch, Mercedarian habit, Crucified in an x-position |
| Serenidus of Saulges | wearing a cardinal's habit and red galero |
| Sergius and Bacchus | Depicted as two young soldiers |
| Sergius of Radonezh | Dressed as a monk, sometimes with paterissa |
| Servandus and Cermanus | Depicted as young soldiers |
| Servatius of Tongeren | "Key of Saint Servatius", crozier, dragon (under his feet) |
| Seventy disciples | Scroll, cross |
| Severin of Cologne | depicted coming from the cathedral to bless the poor |
| Severus of Avranches | Bishop with a nearby horse |
| Severus of Barcelona | bishop with a nail or nails driven into his head |
| Severus of Vienne | Holding a devil in a chain |
| Sicarius of Brantôme | Depicted as an infant |
| Sidonius of Aix | Receiving sight from Jesus |
| Sidwell | Scythe, Holy Well, Lammas |
| Sigfrid of Sweden | bishop carrying three severed heads; bishop carrying three loaves of bread (misrepresentation of the heads); baptizing King Olof of Sweden; traveling in a ship with 2 other bishops; bishop menaced by devils |
| Sigolena of Albi | Crosier |
| Silas | Christian Martyrdom |
| Silvanus of Ahun | dressed in a dalmatic, bearing a book and a palm. |
| Simeon | Depicted as an elderly man, sometimes vested as a Jewish priest, often holding the infant Jesus |
| Simeon Stylites | Clothed as a monk in monastic habit, shown standing on top of his pillar |
| Simón de Rojas | Priestly vestments with the Blue and Red cross of the Trinitarian Order |
| Simon of Cyrene | Carrying Jesus’ Cross before His Crucifixion |
| Simon of Trent | Youth, martyr's palm |
| Simon Stock | Carmelite friar holding a scapular |
| Simon the Apostle | boat; cross and saw; fish (or two fish); lance; man being sawn in two longitudinally; oar |
| Simone Ballachi | Dominican habit |
| Simpliciano of the Nativity | Franciscan habit |
| Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix | Saint Simplicius is represented with a pennant, on the shield of which are three lilies, called the crest of Simplicius; the lilies are a symbol of purity of heart. Saint Beatrix has a cord in her hand, because she was strangled. |
| Sister Lúcia | Visionary to the Marian apparitions at Fátima |
| Solange | shepherdess in prayer |
| Solanus Casey | Franciscan habit |
| Solutor | Military attire |
| Sophia of Rome | palm, book, trough, and sword |
| Sophie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière | Religious habit |
| Sophronius of Jerusalem | Vested as a bishop, with right hand upheld in blessing, holding a Gospel Book or scroll |
| Spyridon | Vested as a bishop with omophorion, often holding a Gospel Book, with his right hand raised in blessing. Sometimes the image features a potsherd, or sprig of basil. Iconographically, he is depicted as tall, with a long, white forked beard, and wearing a woven, straw hat on his head – a traditional shepherd's hat and a representation that he was a shepherd of God's people. |
| Stanislaus of Szczepanów | Bishop's vestments and insignia, sword |
| Stanisław Kazimierczyk | Habit of a canon |
| Stanislaus Kostka | Lily, Jesuit habit, Jesus, Most Blessed Sacrament |
| Stanislaus Papczyński | White habit, crucifix, Chaplet of the Ten Virtues of the B.V.M. |
| Stanislav Nasadil | Martyr's palm |
| Stanisław Kazimierczyk | Priest's cassock |
| Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski | Priest's attire, prisoner's uniform |
| Stefan Wyszyński | Cardinal's attire |
| Stephen Harding | Dressed in the Cistercian cowl, with miniature church model, holding abbot's crozier, holding the Carta Caritatis ("Charter of Charity"), a founding document for the Cistercian Order |
| Stephen the Martyr | Red Martyr, stones, dalmatic, censer, miniature church, Gospel Book, martyr's palm. Vestments of a deacon, in Orthodox and Eastern Christianity he often wears an orarion |
| Stephen of Hungary | Attire of a king, holding an orb or a sceptre with double cross |
| Stephen Nehmé | Religious habit, prayer rope |
| Susanna | palm branch, sword |
| Swithun | Bishop holding a bridge, broken eggs at his feet |
| Symeon the Metaphrast | Pen, Scroll, Religious habit |
| Symphorian and Timotheus | Symphorian is depicted as a young man being dragged to martyrdom while his mother encourages him |
| Symphorosa | Seven sons, martyr's palm |
| Syrus of Genoa | A blackbird |
| Syrus of Pavia | bishop trampling a basilisk (symbol of Arianism) underfoot; bishop enthroned between two deacons; with Saint Juventius |
| Szilárd Bogdánffy | solideo or bishop's cap and gown, palm |
| Szymon of Lipnica | Franciscan habit |

### T

* Christ with Saint Teresa of Avila, holding a thorn in order to pierce her heart
* Saint Therese of Lisieux with her attributes

| Article title | Attributes |
| - | - |
| Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh | mitre, pilgrim scallop |
| Tarasios of Constantinople | Vested as a bishop with omophorion often holding a Gospel book with his right hand raised in blessing |
| Tarcisius | Host, youth, wounds |
| Tatiana of Rome | Shown holding a martyr's cross, or a plate with two eyes on it |
| Tegulus | depicted as a soldier bearing a banner with the Mauritian Cross and the palm of martyrdom; spade |
| Tekle Haymanot | Man with wings on his back and only one leg visible |
| Ten thousand martyrs | Crown of martyrdom, Martyr's palm |
| Teodora Fracasso | Religious habit |
| Terence of Pesaro | Aging bishop; Young soldier holding a palm of martyrdom and a model of Pesaro |
| Teresa Benedicta of the cross | habit of a Carmelite nun (sometimes with a yellow badge), cross, martyr's palm, book, Hebrew scroll, holding a tallit, burning bush |
| Teresa Grillo Michel | Religious habit |
| Teresa Janina Kierocińska | Religious habit |
| Teresa Jornet Ibars | Religious habit |
| Teresa Manganiello | Crucifix, rosary |
| Teresa of Ávila | habit of a Carmelite nun, holding a (fiery) pen, pierced heart, arrow |
| Teresa of the Andes | habit of a Carmelite nun, crucifix, crown of flowers |
| Theban Legion | large group of soldiers |
| Theobald of Marly | knight bearing the arms of Thann; sometimes depicted wearing armor under his Cistercian habit with his miter at his feet |
| Theobald of Provins | depicted as a hermit or as a knight |
| Theodard of Maastricht | sword |
| Theodore | crocodile |
| Theodora (wife of Justinian I) | Imperial vestment |
| Theodore Stratelates | Dressed as a warrior, with spear and shield, or as a civilian |
| Theodore Tiron | Dressed as a soldier sometimes in court dress, with emblems such as a spear, temple, torch, dragon, pyre, martyr's wreath |
| Theodorus and Theophanes | Hymnographer |
| Theodosia of Constantinople | Martyr's cross, monastic habit, icon of Christ Pantocrator |
| Theodosius (son of Maurice) | Imperial attire |
| Theodosius of Kiev | Clothed as an Eastern Orthodox monk, sometimes with an hegumen's paterissa |
| Theodotus of Ancyra (martyr) | torches; sword |
| Theonestus of Vercelli | depicted as a soldier |
| Theophilus of Corte | Franciscan habit |
| Thérèse Couderc | Religious habit |
| Thérèse of Lisieux | Discalced Carmelite habit, many roses, sometimes entwining a crucifix |
| Thiemo | Spindle |
| Thillo | Benedictine abbot holding a chalice and a pastoral staff |
| Thomas Aquinas | The Summa theologiae, a model church, the sun on the chest of a Dominican friar, monstrance, dove, ox |
| Thomas Becket | sword, and wearing chancellor's robe and neck chain |
| Thomas Garnet | Jesuit habit, martyr's palm |
| Thomas More | dressed in the robe of the Chancellor and wearing the Collar of Esses; axe |
| Thomas of Celano | Crucifix, Franciscan habit |
| Thomas of Villanova | A bishop distributing alms to the poor |
| Thomas Saleh | Franciscan habit |
| Thomas Sherwood (martyr) | holding a scroll |
| Thomas the Apostle | The Twin, placing his finger in the side of Christ, nelumbo nucifera, spear (means of his Christian martyrdom), square |
| Three Holy Hierarchs | Vested as bishops, wearing omophoria; raising right hand in blessing; holding Gospel Books or scrolls |
| Three Martyrs of Chimbote | Franciscan habit, Priest's cassock |
| Thyrsus | bucksaw |
| Tiburcio Arnáiz Muñoz | Priest's attire |
| Tikhon of Zadonsk | Vested as a bishop, often holding a Gospel Book or scroll, with his right hand raised in blessing |
| Timothy | pastoral staff, three stones and a clubclub and stones; broken image of Diana |
| Tiridates III of Armenia | Crown, sword, cross, Globus cruciger |
| Titian of Oderzo | episcopal attire |
| Titus Brandsma | Calced Carmelite habit, Nazi concentration camp badge, Martyr's palm |
| Tomasa Ortiz Real | Religious habit |
| Tommaso Bellacci | Franciscan habit |
| Tommaso da Cori | Franciscan habit, Crucifix |
| Tommaso da Olera | Capuchin habit |
| Tommaso Maria Fusco | Crucifix, Zucchetto |
| Tommaso Riccardi | Priest's cassock, Crucifix|Bible |
| Toribio Romo González | Black cassock, martyr's palm, Eucharist |
| Torpes of Pisa | palm of martyrdom; sword; boat |
| Trophimus of Arles | bishop carrying his eyes; bishop having his eyes put out; bishop standing with lions |
| Trudpert | axe, palm of martyrdom |
| Tryphine | beheaded woman |
| Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha | falcon |
| Tudwal | bishop holding a dragon |
| Turibius of Astorga | mitre |

### U

* Saint Urban with grapes
* Saint Ursus with birds on his shoulder

| Saint | Symbol |
| - | - |
| Ubald | Bishop giving a blessing as angels carry his crozier; bishop delivering a blessing while a devil flees from it; holding a scale model of Gubbio |
| Ugolino da Gualdo Cattaneo | Augustinian habit |
| Ulphia | depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her |
| Ulrich of Augsburg | vestments of a bishop, holding a fish; at dinner with Saint Wolfgang; rewarding a messenger with a goose leg; giving a garment to a beggar; with Saint Afra; riding through a river on horseback as his companion sinks; with a cross given him by an angel |
| Umiliana de' Cerchi | Franciscan habit |
| Urban | portrayed in art after his beheading, with the papal tiara near him |
| Urban V | Papal vestments, Papal tiara |
| Urban of Langres | vestments of a bishop, with a bunch of grapes or a vine at his side; a book with a wine vessel on it |
| Uriel | Archangel; Fire in palm; Carrying a book, a scroll, a flaming sword, a disc of the sun, and a celestial orb or disc of stars and constellations; Holding a chalice (only in Ethiopian Orthodox tradition). |
| Ursicinus | abbot with three lilies in his hand or holding a book and fleur-de-lys, surrounded by fleur-de-lys |
| Ursula | arrow; banner; cloak; shot with arrows, accompanied by a varied number of virgins who are being martyred in various ways; standing on a ship with her companions |
| Ursula Ledóchowska | Religious habit |
| Ursus of Aosta | archdeacon with a staff and book, bearing birds on his shoulder; wearing fur pelisse in a religious habit; striking water from a rock; or giving shoes to the poor. |
| Ursus of Solothurn | military attire |

### V

* The Veil of Veronica
* Vigilius with a shoe
* Vitalis of Milan between Saints Gervasius and Protasius
* Vitus with a rooster

| Article title | Attributes |
| - | - |
| Valentine | birds; roses; vestments of a priest or a bishop; with a crippled person or a child with epilepsy at his feet; rooster; being beheaded; bearing a sword; holding a sun; giving sight to a blind girl |
| Valentine of Passau | bishop preaching to pagans |
| Valeria of Milan | With Saint Vitalis, Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius; being beaten with clubs |
| Valinhos (Fátima) | Archangel carrying the Portuguese Shield |
| Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly | Priest's cassock |
| Vasyl Velychkovsky | incorruptibility |
| Vedast | wolf carrying a goose in its mouth; child; bear |
| Venantius of Camerino | young man crucified upside-down with smoke coming from his head; young man holding the citadel of Camerino; young man holding the city of Camerino, a palm, and a book; young man with a banner |
| Venera | crown; book; palm; cross; martyr's palm interlaced with a triple crown (signifying the fact that she was a Virgin, an Apostle, and a Martyr) |
| Veranus of Cavaillon | episcopal attire |
| Verdiana | snakes, depicted as a nun preaching to snakes |
| Verena of Zurzach | jar and bread, comb |
| Veronica | Veil of Veronica |
| Veronica Antal | Palm of martyrdom |
| Veronica Giuliani | Crowned with thorns and embracing a crucifix |
| Vicelinus | Church resting on his left arm |
| Vicenta Chávez Orozco | Religious habit |
| Vicenta María López i Vicuña | Religious habit |
| Vicente Garrido Pastor | Priest's cassock |
| Vicente Liem de la Paz | book, palm, hood, rosary, academic birreta, dalmatic |
| Victor of Marseilles | windmill |
| Victoire Rasoamanarivo | Rosary |
| Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas | Priest's cassock |
| Victor Maurus | man being thrown into a furnace; man roasted in an oven; Moorish soldier trampling on a broken altar |
| Victor of Marseilles | Depicted as a Roman soldier with a millstone; depicted overthrowing a statue of Jupiter; in stocks, comforted by angels; scourged and crushed by a millstone; or with his body beheaded and flung into the river, from which the angels take it; depicted with windmill |
| Victoria | with Saint Acisclus, her brother, crowned with roses, arrow and palm branch |
| Victorinus of Pettau | Palm, pontifical vestments |
| Vigilius of Trent | bishop holding a shoe, wooden holzschuh |
| Viktor of Xanten | Military attire |
| Villana de' Botti | Dominican habit |
| Vincent de Paul | children |
| Vincent Ferrer | Dominican habit, Tongue of flame, Wings, Bible, pulpit, cardinal's hat, trumpet, captives |
| Vincent of Saragossa | Usually pontifical, episcopal, etc. insignia, tools of martyrdom and so forth |
| Vincent Pallotti | Priest's cassock |
| Vincent Romano | Priest's attire, Crucifix, Book of Hours |
| Vincenza Gerosa | Religious habit |
| Vincenzina Cusmano | Religious habit |
| Vincenzo Grossi | Cassock |
| Vincenzo Lipani | Franciscan habit |
| Vitalis of Milan | with Saint Gervase and Saint Protase |
| Vitus | book, cross, rooster, lion, bread, cauldron, eagle, hare; holding a church model |
| Vladimir the Great | crown, cross, throne |

### W

* Saint Wolfgang holding a church model with an adze lodged in the roof (Coat of arms of the Czech municipality Hnanice).
* Willigis with the Wheel of Mainz

| Article title | Attributes |
| - | - |
| Wenceslaus of Bohemia | crown, dagger, burning eagle on a banner |
| Wendreda | Nun, healer |
| Werenfried of Elst | Priest who holds a ship containing a coffin |
| Werner of Oberwesel | sickle, shovel, pan |
| Wiborada | a Benedictine nun holding a book and axe |
| Wilgefortis | Bearded woman; depicted crucified, often shown with a small fiddler at her feet, and with one shoe off |
| Willehad | bishop overturning idols |
| William Firmatus | A man thrusting his arm into a fire; a man with a raven showing him the way to the Holy Land |
| William of Maleval | cross, skull |
| William of Montevergine | wolf and pastoral crook |
| William of Norwich | Depicted holding nails, with nail wounds or undergoing crucifixion |
| William of Perth | Walking staff, Palmer's wallet, little dog. |
| William of York | bishop's vestments, crozier, crossing the River Tweed |
| Willibrord | Dipping staff into cask |
| Willigis | Bishop with the Wheel of Mainz |
| Winibald | portrayed as an abbot with a bricklayer's trowel; shown with Willibald (his brother) and Richard the Saxon (his father) |
| Saint Winifred | Abbess, holding a sword, sometimes with her head under her arm |
| Winnoc | abbot with a crown and scepter at his feet, turning a hand-mill, often with a church and bridge nearby; in ecstasy while grinding corn; with Saint Bertin |
| Władysław Bukowiński | Priest's cassock |
| Władysław Findysz | Priest's attire |
| Wolfgang of Regensburg | depicted with a church model with an adze lodged in the roof, with a wolf |
| Wulfram of Sens | Bishop baptizing a young king; cleric with a young king nearby; cleric arriving by ship with monks and baptizing a king; baptizing the son of King Radbod |

### X

* Pope Xystus (Sixtus) with book and papal tiara

| Saint | Symbol |
| - | - |
| Xenia of Saint Petersburg | walking stick |
| Xystus | book, papal insignia (mostly tiara and papal ferula), martyr's palm, book |
| Xu Guangqi | Ming Empire court dress holding a crucifix and book. |

### Y

* Bishop's vestments

| Saint | Symbol |
| - | - |
| Yrieix | bishop's vestments, crozier |
| Yaropolk Izyaslavich | Clothed as Prince, holding a three-bar cross in his right hand |
| Yaroslav the Wise | Grand Prince's robes, sword, church model, book or scroll |
| Yared | Wearing traditional attire, and holding a mequamia (prayer stick), tsanatsel (Ethiophian sistrum) in front of Deggua book and three chants: Ge'ez, Ezel and Araray represented in terms of doves |
| Yevgeny Rodionov | military uniform, Orthodox cross |

### Z

* Saint Zenobius resurrects a dead boy
* Zeno of Verona with a fish hanging from his crozier

| Saint | Symbol |
| - | - |
| Zachary | Making peace with King Luitprand. Sometimes he may have an olive branch and a dove over him |
| Zadkiel | Dagger |
| Zefirino Agostini | Cassock, breviary |
| Zeno of Verona | fish, fishing rod, or a bishop holding a fishing rod, or with a fish hanging from his crozier. |
| Zenobius of Florence | vestments of a bishop; flowering tree; bringing a dead man or a boy back to life |
| Zita | bag, keys |
| Zita of Bourbon-Parma | Imperial attire, medals |
| Zofia Czeska | Religious habit |
| Zoltán Meszlényi | book, palm, mitre |
| Zygmunt Gorazdowski | Priest's attire |
