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The Story of St. Odilia
St. Odilia was a teenager who was killed by the Huns in Cologne, Germany in the fourth century because she refused to deny her faith. After she died several people who visited her grave were cured of their blindness.
 Odilia appeared to John Novelan, a lay brother of the Crosier Order in Paris and told him she had been appointed by God to be the Patron Saint and Protectress of the members of the Holy Cross - now called Crosier Fathers.
She told him where her relics could be found. These relics were taken to Belgium but lost during the time of the French Revolution. In 1949, they were returned to the Order. We have a relic of St. Odilia below her statue in our church entryway.
St. Odilia is the patroness of the blind and the patroness of our parish. We ask her today and every day to help us with our spiritual blindness and physical blindness. We ask her to help us to see the light and to live in the light of Christ.
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