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Alice of Schaerbeek (or Adelaide or Aleydis) (also known as Alice the Leper) (Dutch: Sint Aleydis, French: Sainte Alix), (c. 1220–1250) was a Cistercian laysister who is venerated as the patron saint of the blind and paralyzed. Her feast day is 15 June.
The niece of Pepin II of Aquitaine, [1] she was born on April 29, 845. She was cured of blindness by the abbess-saint Ragenfredis (French Renfroie).Ava then gave her fortune to the Church and became a Benedictine nun and, later, abbess of her monastery in the County of Hainaut, now in Belgium.
Because some versions of her story relate that her eyes were removed, either by herself or by her persecutors, she is the patroness saint of the blind. [4] She is also the patron saint of ophthalmologists, authors, cutlers, glaziers, laborers, martyrs, peasants, saddlers, salesmen, stained glass workers, photogrammetry, and of Perugia, Italy ...
Venerated as the healer of the blind, Saint Paraskevi is often depicted with two eyeballs in her hands. [7] Saint Paraskevi is the most prominent among women healing saints, and she is widely venerated as the healer of the blind. [7] For this reason, she is often depicted with two eyeballs in her hands. [7]
Saints have often been prevailed upon in requests for intercessory prayers to protect against or help combatting a variety of dangers, illnesses, and ailments. This is a list of saints and such ills traditionally associated with them. In shorthand, they are called the patron saints of (people guarding against or grappling with) these various ...
Though he went blind at age seventy, [3] he was able to prepare sermons with the help of an aide. His preaching was credited with bringing people back to the church in his province. [ 2 ] Soon after his death, there was an immediate veneration at his tomb and several miracles were attributed to him.
the blind or partially sighted; Alsace, France Odile of Alsace , also known as Odilia and Ottilia , born c. 662 - c. 720 at Mont Sainte-Odile ), is a saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church .
Sint-Alenatoren (left) with De Viron Castle on the background The Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Breughel the Elder In the background is the church of Saint Alena of Dilbeek Belgium The Bishop of Cambrai gave permission for Abbot Godeschalk of Affligem Abbey to enshrine Alena's remains in the Priory of Forest , then a dependency of Affligem ...