St. Odilia – Based on a Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Art Print – Confirmation Gift Ignatius and the suffering she endured

and the suffering she endured alongside of him

the faithful souls who have recourse to her

It was started in 1845 by a faithful Catholic woman

it was unusual for it to be used for Catholic art

St. Odilia – Based on a Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Art Print – Confirmation Gift Ignatius and the suffering she endured800 years after she was martyred near modern day Cologne, Germany, St. Odilia appeared in 1287 A. D. to a lay brother of the Crosier Order, Brother John Novelan of Eppa. She told him she had been commanded by God to be the protector of the order. She also told him where her relics were buried and pleaded with him to dig them up and bring them to the order. John and a companion left Paris and went to Cologne, a long trip in those days, and dug in an