Saint Drogo

Also known as: Dreux
Drugo
Druon
Memorial: 16 April
Profile: Flemish nobility. His mother died giving him birth, a fact that emotionally crushed him when he learned of it at age 10; he imagined himself responsible for her death. Later in life he practiced extreme penances, possibly to expiate this guilt. Orphaned in his teens. At 18, he disposed of all his property and became a penitential pilgrim, making 9 trips to Rome. Shepherd for six years at Sebourg, near Valencienne, France, working for Elizabeth de la Haire. Revered for his holiness. Reportedly able to bilocate, with witnesses seeing him simultaneously working the fields and attending Mass. Stricken with an unsightly bodily affliction during a pilgrimage, he became a hermit at Sebourg in Hainault for 40 years surviving on barley, water, and the Eucharist.
Born: 1105
Died: c.1186 at Seboug, France
Patronage: against bodily ills
against broken bones, against deafness
against dumbness
against gall stones
against hernias
against illness
against insanity, against mental illness, against muteness
against ruptures
against sickness
Baume-les-Messieurs
cattle
coffee house keepers
coffee house owners
deaf people
Fleury-sur-Loire
mentally ill people
midwives
mute people
mutes
orphans
sheep
shepherds
sick people
unattractive people
Representation: Benedictine with sheep
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