Fourteen Holy Helpers
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The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together by Catholics because their intercession is believed to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This group of
Figurines of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Chapel on the Michaelsberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Painting of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
Basilika Vierzehnheiligen
The first panel of the Grünewald altarpiece
Saint Barbara
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Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Syrian Greek saint and martyr.
Fourteen Holy Helpers
…the plague itself. Saint Denis was prayed to for relief from headache, Saint Blaise against ills of the throat, Saint Elmo, against abdominal maladies, Saint Barbara against fever, and Saint Vitus against epilepsy. Saint Pantaleon was the patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed…
St. Barbara with her attribute – three-windowed tower, central panel of St. Barbara Altarpiece (1447), National Museum in Warsaw
St. Barbara in her tower, right panel of the Werl Triptych by Robert Campin, 1438
The beheading of St. Barbara by Giulio Quaglio the Younger (1721–1723)
Saint Barbara in Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, c. 1520s