patrons of widows
- Adelaide
- Anastasia
- Angela of Foligno
- Anne Line
- Bathild
- Bridget of Sweden
- Blaesilla
- Castora Gabrielli
- Catherine of Genoa
- Clotilde
- Dorothy of Montau
- Elizabeth of Hungary
- Elizabeth of Portugal
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
- Etheldreda
- Fabiola
- Felicity
- Frances of Rome
- Gertrude of Nivelles
- Hedwig
- Helen del Cavalcanti
- Helen of Skofde
- Ida of Boulogne
- Ida of Herzfeld
- Ivetta of Huy
- Jeanne de Chantal
- Jeanne de Lestonnac
- Jeanne Marie de Maille
- Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
- Julitta
- Louise de Marillac
- Lucy de Freitas
- Ludmila
- Macrina the Elder
- Margaret of Scotland
- Margaret the Barefooted
- Marguerite d’Youville
- Marie of the Incarnation
- Matilda
- Michelina
- Monica
- Olga
- Paula
- Pharaildis
- Rita of Cascia
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