"Pantaleon implored Heaven to forgive them, for which reason he also received the name of Panteleimon ("mercy for everyone" or "all-compassionate"). It was not until he himself desired it that it was possible to behead him, upon which there issued forth blood and a white liquid like milk.
Patron of Physicians, midwives, livestock, invoked against headaches, consumption, locusts, witchcraft, accidents and loneliness, helper for crying children…
Sounds more like a small deity.
Why not worship your local patronsaints too as the catholic/orthodoxs do as long as their life indicates no outright hostility to your ways as it is with the hols bonifatius.
"Reportedly Drogo was able to bilocate, which refers to the ability to maintain one's actual presence in two totally different places at the same time. Witnesses claimed seeing Drogo working in fields simultaneously, and going to mass every Sunday.
During a pilgrimage he was stricken with an unsightly bodily affliction. He became so terribly deformed that he frightened the townspeople. In his twenties, a cell was built for him to protect the local citizens of the village from his appearance. Since he was so holy, his cell was built attached to his church. St. Drogo stayed in his cell without any human contact, except for a small window in which he received the Eucharist and obtained his food. He stayed there for the rest of his life, about forty more years, surviving only on barley, water, and the holy Eucharist."
>Patron of coffee houses, unattractive people, midwives, mute persons, and cattle.
Another odd one.
Id look closely on saints from the conversion period, they may have incorporated other beliefs then the judaic alone and some of them had honourable lifes, worshipping them as it was done and recorded since the middleages may be more authenthic then making up some rite for Ostara for example.