Have You Heard of Saint Osburg?

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I have been writing a set of articles about Catholic saints and their feast days. The most recent one is about saints whose feast days fall in March. Some of the saints are quite well-known, others are more obscure. I have found some more interesting than others. The last one for my March saints is Osburg (Osburh, Osburga). I was already aware of a church and a school dedicated to her. They are not far from where I live. The surprising thing here was discovering that there is nothing else dedicated to this saint. She is very specific to the city of Coventry in the West Midlands region of England. There are other saints who are more closely linked to a certain place. For example, Saint Chad is quite prominent in some areas of the West Midlands. He is, however, known in other places. When researching Osburg, I was quite surprised to find nothing of her outside of a single city (which was only a tiny settlement when Osburg's remains were enshrined there). This information fascinated me. I am fascinated by such things. My husband and I have been watching a 90s TV show called Millennium. At the beginning of each episode, they show a quote or a Bible verse. It was interesting that the quotes all seemed to be from British authors (despite Millennium being an American show) but it was a little different when a quote came up from George Eliot. You may have heard of her, I don't know how famous she is in the rest of the world. For us, it was because she is very local to us. My husband and I (and my children) were all born at her namesake hospital. I also got unnecessarily excited when I discovered one of my favourite actors was also born there (although he grew up elsewhere). We have similar feelings watching shows where we recognise places because we've been there! One thing that bothers me, however, is that the most famous person from the town where I live a) is not actually from the town and b) is someone that most people who know him would prefer not to be associated with! Do you find you get excited when you see things and people that are from your neck of the woods? Is there anything interesting about where you live? Do you know of any other places that have a saint all to themselves?