Editing Ulrich of Augsburg (section)

=== Patronage ===
Along with Afra and Simpert, Ulrich is a patron saint of Augsburg. Legend held that pregnant women who drank from his [[chalice]] had easy deliveries, and thus developed his patronage of pregnant women and easy births. The touch of his pastoral cross was used to heal people bitten by [[rabies|rabid]] dogs.<ref name=CNA/>

The veneration of Ulrich was carried to the Western Hemisphere by the German Catholic peasant pioneers whom [[Francis Xavier Pierz]] persuade to settle in central [[Minnesota]] following the [[Treaty of Traverse des Sioux]] in 1851. Along with [[Magnus of Füssen]], Ulrich's intercession was credited with the defeat of the 1856–1857 [[Rocky Mountain locust]] plague, and both saints continued afterwards to be venerated in and around [[Stearns County, Minnesota]], with pilgrimages and religious processions. (See also [[Assumption Chapel]]).<ref name=gross>{{Cite journal |last=Gross |first=Stephen John |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/catholic_historical_review/v092/92.2gross.pdf |title=The Grasshopper Shrine at Cold Spring, Minnesota - Religion and Market Capitalism among German-American Catholics |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |date=April 2006 |volume=92 |issue=2 |pages=215–243 |doi=10.1353/cat.2006.0133 |s2cid=159890053}}</ref>