I have been asked for the Patron Saint against flooding. I found a few and have chosen to feature St. Gregory Thaumaturgus.
Gregory was born around AD 213 to a wealthy pagan family in Neocaesarea in what is now Turkey (appropriately for a Thanksgiving post). Little is known of his pastoral work and his theological writings are incomplete, but his immemorial title Thaumaturgus, "the wonder-worker" in Latinized Greek, casts an air of legend about him.
Gregory first learned about Christianity around the age of 14 from the legendary scholar Origen. After many years of study under Origen, he returned home with the intention of practicing law, but his plans were interrupted when he was consecrated Bishop of his native Ceasarea. He began his episcopate with only seventeen souls in his flock.Through his missionary zeal, by the time of his death 13 years later, there were reputed to be only seventeen pagans left in the whole town.
As mentioned before, although Gregory was known as "the Wonder-worker", details of the wonders attributed to him are scarce. It is said that he had the charism of healing, he could dry up streams and move tremendous boulders by the commands of his word. Because of this he is patron against earthquakes, desperate causes, floods, forgotten causes, impossible causes, lost causes. His feast day is November 17.
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