However, looking at the other intercessions - against headache, fever & sudden death, illness of the throat, sudden death (again), bubonic plague, temptation on the death-bed, headache (again), intestinal ailments, family discord, plague (again) & a good confession, during childbirth, physicians and finally epilepsy, the health of domestic animals is at least as important given the time the fourteen helpers were set down (the fourteenth century at the time of the Black Death) and, I’d contend, is still important in what the Catholic church might consider ‘growth areas’.

xD.