Saint Drogo

Saint Drogo

Infobox Saint
name= Saint Drogo
birth_date= 1105
death_date= 1185
feast_day= April 16
venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church


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attributes=Benedictine with sheep
patronage= those who others find repulsive, unattractive people, Baume-les-Messieurs, bodily ills, broken bones, cattle, coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, deaf people, deafness, dumbness, Fleury-sur-Loire, gall stones, hernias, illness, insanity, mental illness, mentally ill people, midwives, mute people, muteness, mutes, orphans, ruptures, sheep, shepherds, sick people, sickness
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Saint Drogo (1105 - 1185) is a French saint, also known as Dreux, Drugo, and Druron. He was born and died in Sebourg, France. His feast day is on April 16.

Life

Drogo was a child of the Flemish nobility. His mother died when he was born. He learned the reason for her death, and it emotionally crushed him. He held himself responsible. Soon later in his life he went to extreme penances, perhaps to relieve his guilt. Drogo was orphaned when he was a teenager.

At age eighteen, he rid himself of all his property and became a penitential pilgrim. As a pilgrim he traveled to Rome about nine or ten times. He became a shepherd for about six years working in Sebourg, near Valenciennes. He was working for a lady named Elizabeth de la Haire.

Reportedly Drogo was able to bilocate, which refers to the ability to maintain one's actual presence in two totally different places at the same time. Witnesses claimed seeing Drogo working in fields simultaneously, and going to mass every Sunday.

During a pilgrimage he was stricken with unsightly bodily affliction. He became so terribly deformed that he frightened the townspeople. In his twenties, a cell was built for him to protect the local citizens of the village from his appearance. Since he was so holy, his cell was built attached to his church. St. Drogo stayed in his cell without any human contact, except for a small window in which he received the Eucharist and obtained his food. He stayed there for the rest of his life, about forty more years, surviving only on barley, water, and the holy Eucharist.

External links

* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/saintd17.htm Patron saints: Drogo]
* [http://www.katehodgson.net/saint22.html Saint Drogo]
* [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0416.htm Saints of April 16: Drogo of Sebourg]
*it icon [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92331 San Drogone]
* [http://www.theroasterie.com/outreach/costarica.asp The St. Drogo Foundation]


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