Patron saint medals are a very popular thing to wear as a necklace, or to keep on your person at all times. People feel like the saint protects them, helps them through their day, or is simply there to comfort them when they have their medal on them. Some people simply wear patron saint medals because they were named after a certain saint. Whatever the reason may be, people all over the world wear these medals and there are some that have become more popular over the years than others.Patron saint medals as symbols of Christian faith and devotion are defiantly at odds with the materialism of the modern and very secular world.To wear a medal portraying the image of a person who long ago left this earthly life, but whom you believe can still have influence on your day-to-day activities, is considered ridiculous superstition by many, if not most, members of our materialistic society.Those who do not outright disdain the evidence of belief in saints may still to look askance at a St. Christopher medal hanging in a friend's car and feel some measure of awkwardness or even embarrassment.However, there was a time when faith in saints and the spiritual world they inhabit was as commonly accepted as the faith in the cycles of nature.Saint medals proclaim the belief that a particular person indeed lived a holy life in complete submission to God. And, furthermore, his or her submission was so total that from heaven this eternally alive person is able to dynamically interact with those here below.