St. Odilia Patron of the Blind and Alsace-Lorraine
According to her (eighth-century) legend, Odilia was born blind. Her father, Adalric, an Alsatian nobleman, wished the child to be “exposed”—that is, left to die (a form of population control often practiced by medieval Christians—see The Kindness of Strangers by historian James Boswell). But her mother gave Odilia into the care of a peasant woman, who in turn assigned her to a convent. At the age of twelve, when she was baptized, Odilia was miraculously granted her sight. Word of this wonder—and of the girl’s true identity reacher her brother. He petitioned his father, Adalric for his sister’s return—and was slain for his trouble. Then Aldaric waxed contrite He welcomed Odilia home, fawned over her, even arranged her engagement to a neighboring German knight. Odilia, who had vowed to remain a virgin, fled the castle. Once more her dreadful parent made an attempt on her life, but at length sincerely repented, and financed her foundation of two convents. After his death, Odilia’s constant prayers allowed him to be released from Purgatory, and father and daughter are now united in Heaven.
St. Mathurin Patron of fools
This (very early) patronage of fools and idiots is in French apparently inexplicable. A precocious religious lad of the city of Sens, in what was then Roman Gaul, Mathurin was baptized at the early age of twelve, and then managed the conversion of his own pagan parents. Ordained priest (allegedly by the great St. Polycarp himself), Mathurin acquired a reputation as an exorcist, and was invited to Rome by Emperor Maximiian to expel a devil possessing his daughter. Mathurin’s mission was a success, but resulted in the Saint’s own death. Buried with great ceremony in Rome, he one day reportedly rose from the grave and returned to native city to be buried there. Curiously, “mathurin” has long been a French slang term for “sailor.”
St. Margaret Patron of childbirth
A princess of Antioch, Margaret’s father threw her out when he discovered that her nanny (one Theotimus) had made her a Christian; together the maiden and her maid became simple shepherdesses. A stunning beauty despite having consecrated herself to virginity, Margaret was pushed by an amorous prefect, who, upon rejection of his advances, threw her into jail. There, in her cell, she was visited by Satan, who assumed the form of a dragon and swallowed her. but in the very belly of the beast, a cross she carried grew to such enormous proportions that the dragon was split in two, and Margaret emerged unharmed; for this reason, she is the traditional patron of childbirth. On another occasion, the Devil appeared to Our Saint as a man, but Margaret saw through his disguise, knocked him down, and set her foot on his neck, saying, “Lie still, thou fiend, under the foot of a woman.” She was eventually beheaded, and went directly to Heaven, where she enjoyed enormous popularity throughout the Middle Ages. Hers was one of the voices heard by Joan of Arc. Among her emblems is a pearl—which is “margarita” in Latin.
Scrofula Sufferer
St. Marculf Invoked against scrofula
As everyone knows, the touch of a king cures the skin disease scrofula, for which reason it it called “the King’s Evil.” In France all monarchs were endowed with this marvelous power through the intercession of Marculf, a sixth-century Norman monk whose relics were visited and venerated as part of the official French coronation ceremonies until 1825.
November 14 St. Lawrence O’Toole Patron Saint of Dublin
Lawrence was canonized in the early thirteenth century,t the last person from Ireland (the land of Saints and Scholars) to be so honored until the end of the twentieth century, and has come to symbolize his country’s subjugation to England and isolation from Rome. Lawrence was the son of a chieftain, taken hostage at the age of ten by his lifelong nemesis, King Dermot. Dermot mistreated Lawrence and killed his father, so when Lawrence became bishop of Dublin he banished the old reprobate to England. The Saint brought order to Dublin, inviting thirty homeless people to dinner each night. Years earlier Pope Adrian IV (a Norman Englishman, the former Nicholas Breakspear) had ceded Ireland to King Henry II of England, effectively given the most Catholic and Celtic of countries over to the Norman English. The traitorous King Dermot and his new (English) son-in-law, the earl of Pembroke (the infamous Strongbow), invaded Ireland. The Irish rallied around their high king, Rory O’Connor, but were defeated by Strongbow. Lawrence negotiated the treaty between the English king and the Irish high king, and when that treaty failed Ireland’s “troubles’ began. Henry II arrived on Irish shores, claiming the country give him by one Pope, a claim approved by a subsequent Pope, Alexander III, who went on to demand a Peter’s pence from Ireland for Rome. Lawrence continued to work for peace, traveling constantly to England. On his last mission he was snubbed by Henry II who forbade him to return to Ireland. He sided in France, but his last words were in Irish: translated, they say, “Alas! You stupid, foolish people, what will you do now? Who will look after you in your misfortunes??
Postscript: In 2012, Gypsies (“Travelers”) known for dealing in rhinoceros’ horns, stole Lawrence’s heart from a Dublin Cathedral: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/ireland-saint-laurence-otoole-heart-stolen-dublin-cathedral_n_1321494.html
St. Macra Invoked against breast disease
A maiden convert to the Faith in Rheims, France (Gaul to the third century Romans) she was subjected (when she would abandon neither her Faith nor her chastity) to fiendish torments, not the least of which was the shearing off of her virginal though substantial mammaries.
A woman made fun of a bald abbot.
St. Leufredus Invoked against flies
This eighth-century French monk, also called “Leufroy,” had a considerable reputation for cursing. When a woman once called attention to his baldness, she and all her progeny became bald. When a thief slandered him, Abbot Leufredus saw to it that he an this descendants were stricken toothless. When he saw farmers blasphemously plowing on a Sunday, he afflicted their fields with perpetual sterility. And when he was interrupted in his prayers by bothersome flies, he banished this insects forever from his house.
http://www.actorschapel.org/HistorNovember 3 St. Malachy O’More
Malachy was born into a noble family and became a hermit, a monk, a priest and a bishop. Malachy was called the Irish of the Irish—but his official biographer was St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and it was in Bernard’s arms that he died. In his time Malachy was known for his miracles, but he has become celebrated for the gift (or curse) of second sight. Like Malachi of the Old Testament, he could make astonishing accurate prophecies. He said Pope Innocent XI (who reigned 1676-1689, five hundred years after Malachy’s death) would be an “insatiable beast.” But he was probably referring only to that Pontiff’s love of rich food. Malachy termed the ill-fated John Paul I (1978-1978) of “the half-moon” perhaps because that pope was elected during a half-moon and died (or was killed) shortly afterward—during along half-moon. In his final and most chilling prophecy, Malachy predicted that the last Pope would call himself Peter the Roman (this should be a tip-off, since ten the Bad Borgia Popes never presumed to take the name of the first Pope). Peter the Roman will actually be Satan, the final Antichrist who will seduce the entire world into thinking he’s a good-natured, pious Pontiff, and then…
It should be noted that in the heart of Times Square sits the famous St. Malachy’s Church, “the actor’s chapel” a holy place for Broadway luminaries to retreat after hits or flops.
From...Saints Preserve Us! 
