Saints & Angels

Prayer to St. Peregrine

This popular prayer invokes Saint Peregrine Laziosi, a thirteenth-century Servite friar who is honored as the patron of those suffering from cancer and other serious diseases. Catholic tradition recounts that Peregrine was healed of a cancerous leg after praying before an image of Christ crucified. The prayer recalls that healing and asks his intercession for the sick, especially when human remedies seem exhausted. Catholics often pray it privately, with families, in parish healing ministries, or during a novena to Saint Peregrine. Its confidence reflects the Church’s teaching that the saints in heaven continue to intercede for the faithful, as described in CCC 956.

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called “The Mighty” and “The Wonder-Worker” because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, and had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy. Amen.

When to pray it: Pray this prayer for those suffering from cancer or another serious illness, especially during a novena to Saint Peregrine.

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