William Firmatus [SEP] canonization status
William Firmatus
William Firmatus (; 1026–1103) was a Norman hermit and pilgrim of the eleventh century, now venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Life.
William Firmatus was a canon and a physician of Tours, France. Following a spiritual prompting against greed, he gave away all his possessions to the poor. He lived a reclusive life with his mother until he entered a hermitage near Laval, Mayenne. He spent the rest of his life on pilgrimages and as a hermit at Savigny and Mantilly.
– invoked against lightning
- Vitalis of Assisi – diseases and sicknesses affecting the genitals
- Vitus – Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping
W.
- Walter of Pontoise – invoked against stress
- Wilgefortis – people seeking relief from tribulations, in particular by women who wished to be liberated from abusive husbands.
- William Firmatus – against headache
- Willibrord – convulsions, epilepsy, epileptics
- Winnoc – fever, whooping cough
- Wulfram of Sens –