Gemma Galgani

Gemma Umberta Pia Galgani (12 March 1878 – 11 April 1903), also known as Gemma of Lucca, was an Italian mystic, canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church in 1940. She has been called the "daughter of the Passion" because of her profound imitation of the Passion of Christ. She is especially venerated in the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Passionists).

Patron saint of Students; pharmacists; paratroopers; parachutists; loss of parents; those suffering back injury or back pain; those suffering with headaches/migraines; those struggling with temptations to impurity and those seeking purity of heart