St. Anthony Mary Claret

Patron Saint of Weavers

St. Anthony Mary Claret was an Archbishop in Spain in the nineteenth century and the founder of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians). He is the patron saint of weavers as he was the son of a weaver and a weaver himself before joining the priesthood. He participated in the first Vatican Council. He famously wrote about the traits of one filled with the zeal of Christ: “Nothing deters him: he rejoices in poverty; he labors strenuously; he welcomes hardships; he laughs off false accusations; he rejoices in anguish. He thinks only of how he might follow Jesus Christ and imitate him by his prayers, his labors, his sufferings, and by caring always and only for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.”