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>> Worship Mary? Worship dead Christians of ancient renown? <<

The author states that her meaning when she says "worship" is to give honor as one worthy of emulation.

>>Patron saint of... taxi drivers ... venereal disease ... horticulturalists ... hemmorhoids <<

So you go and look up the most outrageous, extreme example so you can ridicule it. Wonderful, you've reached the intellectual maturity of the Daily Show. And ooh, you can cite a reference source that any drunk can create the references for. Please, Wikipedia measns something when there's a community of people hammering away a definition... for obscure Catholics saints, it's about as reliable as a source as the nearest Wiccan allergist.

It so happens that St. Fiachre was renowned for miraculous healings, including converting sexual sinners to Christ, and healing many forms of polyps, cists, and what probably would now be called cancer. And, yes, he stood as a witness to God's miraculous mercy extending even to those afflicted with venereal disease.

So, exactly why is it a bad thing for those Christian converts who suffer from veneral disease and hemorrhoids to know that they have someone in Heaven praying for them?

So you go and look up the most outrageous, extreme example so you can ridicule it.

Fiacre is hardly obscure. Actually, I was looking for the patron saint of pigs and Portugal and was going to mention the financial advantages of being a Portugese pig farmer. But I couldn't find that one and this one jumped out at me.

So, exactly why is it a bad thing for those Christian converts who suffer from veneral disease and hemorrhoids to know that they have someone in Heaven praying for them?

Send them to a doctor instead. Even a Protestant doctor.

God's grants us reason so we can practice medicine and other sciences as part of His mercy toward us.