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I've seen the Cord of St. Francis and various other cords, medals, scapulars, badges, etc offered for sale in Catholic shops and at shrines and so on.

Do any of the members here wear any of these other (probably less-well-known, but I'm not a cradle Catholic so I can't be sure) sacramentals/devotional items?

Do any members here belong to a Society, Sodality, Association or other formal or informal group dedicated to the veneration of a particular saint that might not be one of the "big ones" that everyone knows these days?

I'm curious to know whether any traditional devotional/sacramental practices that are less familiar to modern Newchurchers or NeoCaths are still in use among Catholics.

What fascinates me is the continuing superstitious/idolatrous attraction many so-called Catholics (usually old ladies in my experience) have to the most "famous"/well-known saints and especially Our Lady. They talk about her as if she were Deity. I've heard her referred to as "the light of the world"; I've heard other attributions made to her that rightly belong to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Similarly, of course, there's the "St. Anthony helps me find my car keys" thing. I know he is invoked when important things are missing, etc, but I'm reading an 80-year-old book about St. Anthony, and believe me, this is no "Dear St. Anthony, please come down" jingle.

It surprises me how shallow some people's notions of these holy men and women really are.

That's why I want to know about these less-common devotions to saints and the sacramentals associated with them; these are probably saints who are venerated for their holiness and heroic charity, not just because they are treated like fairy-godparents.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us.

St. Fiacre, pray for us.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

Yes. I wear the brown scapular, miraculous medal, and St Benedict crucifix.  
I have Third order Cord.  

What fascinates me is the continuing superstitious/idolatrous attraction many so-called Catholics (usually old ladies in my experience) have to the most "famous"/well-known saints and especially Our Lady. They talk about her as if she were Deity. I've heard her referred to as "the light of the world"; I've heard other attributions made to her that rightly belong to Our Lord Jesus Christ.

I understand what you are saying here, because your further remarks illustrate the point, but you have to express yourself very prudently when saying such things as "continuing superstitious/idolatrous attraction many so-called Catholics (usually old ladies in my experience) have to the most 'famous'/well-known saints and especially Our Lady." This is because the enemies of Holy Mother Church, especially the Jansenists who had the gall to attack St. Alphonsus as a supposed innovator for his Glories of Mary (the same charge was laid against St. Louis-Marie and many other Saints), have verbalized their stances in a very similar manner. The Psalter of St. Bonaventure has also been the favorite target of Protestant heretics and Jansenists.

All Catholics know Our Lady is a creature, infinitely inferior to Our Lord Who is the Sole-Begotten of the Eternal Father, co-equal and co-eternal to Him in the unity of the Holy Ghost, the one, true, living God. Our Lady knew this better than anyone and her beautiful Canticle recorded by St. Luke expresses the humility, self-abasement and gratitude that is concomitant with such knowledge. However, together with St. Elizabeth at the Visitation, we praise Our Lady precisely because all her excellence comes from the Lord God who fore-chose her as the Virgin Mother of His Son.

Of Mary there is never enough, and no praise of her is excessive in the mouths of right-believing Catholics because it rebounds to the greater glory of her Divine Son.

Together with the works of St. Louis-Marie and St. Alphonsus, the works of Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda show how this is the case:

http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Notice-on-the-Works-of-Ven-Mary-of-Jesus-of-Agreda