Saints for Financial Trouble
In financial trouble Orthodox Christians pray to St Spyridon, who helped the debtor and the poor farmer, and to St Nicholas, who secretly saved a ruined father and his three daughters. Russians add St Matrona and St Xenia, who are asked about money, housing and every household need, and St John of Kronstadt for help in debt and want. The Apostle Matthew, once a tax collector, is honored in the West as patron of bankers and accountants. The Church asks God for daily bread, honest work and a way out of debt.
The saints the Church turns to
St Spyridon
Asked for help in financial difficulties and the return of debts.
12 December (25 December on the Old Calendar).
St Nicholas the Wonderworker
Asked for relief from poverty.
6 December (19 December on the Old Calendar).
St Matrona of Moscow
Asked for help with work and money troubles.
2 May.
St Xenia of Petersburg
Asked for work and help in hard times.
24 January (6 February on the Old Calendar).
The Apostle Matthew
Asked for a change of life; in the West, patron of bankers and accountants.
16 November (29 November on the Old Calendar).
In our shop
- St Spyridon, St Matrona and St Xenia icons (coming soon)
How Orthodox Christians pray for this
Pray before the icon each day, give alms even when money is short, and ask your priest for a moleben to St Spyridon or St Nicholas. Many read an akathist to St Spyridon in hard times.
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Questions
Who is the patron saint of finances?
Catholics name St Matthew, patron of bankers and accountants. Orthodox Christians in money trouble pray to St Spyridon and St Nicholas.
Is St Matthew the Orthodox patron of accountants?
That patronage is Western. Orthodox Christians honor him as the tax collector who left everything to follow Christ.