ABSTRACT
By my last reckoning there were 160 hospitals in Britain named after a saint. St Mary has easily the largest number (26) with St John (13) in second place and St George and St Luke jointly third, with nine each. Others are St Andrew and St Michael (six each); Anne, Margaret, James, and Peter (five each); Paul and David (four each); Nicholas, Thomas, Clement, Lawrence, Leonard, and Catherine (three each); Matthew, Stephen, Bartholomew, Francis, Joseph and Martin (two each). Thirty two saints patronise just one hospital—Aldhelm, Anthony, Audrey, Augustine, Barnabus, Blazey, Cadoc, Chad, Charles, Christopher, Crispin, Ebba, Editha, Edmund, Edward, Faith, Giles, Helen, Helier, Hilda, Mark, Monica, Olave, Oswald, Pancras, Philip, Saviour, Theresa, Vincent, Wilfrid, Woolas and Wulstan.
