My Italian holiday with Sof is drawing near. My bags are packed and my bandaid kit complete- only one thing remains. I've been struggling to find an appropriate patron saint for our Italian expedition, an absolute must going into any Catholic country. Our patron saint must be vaguely Italian so we are sure to run into his/her images.



Here are the possible candidates:

1. Expeditus- against procrastination, expeditious solutions, merchants, navigators, prompt solutions



2. Rita of Cascia, long suffering nun who patronizes desperate, forgotten, impossible or otherwise lost causes as well as against loneliness, against sterility, bodily ills, difficult marriages, widows, wounds



3. Sebastien. He has a heavy plate of patronizing:archers, armourers, arrowsmiths, athletes, bookbinders, diseased cattle, dying people, enemies of religion, fletchers, gardeners, Huelva, Spain, iron mongers, lacemakers, laceworkers, lead workers, masons, plague, police, racquet makers, Rio de Janeiro, soldiers, Spanish police officers, stone masons, stonecutters

Noone seems quite right.