St. Drogo
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Patron: those whom 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
Birth: 1105
Death: 1186
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Flemish noble orphaned at birth who became a hermit, also called Droun. He became a penitential pilgrim, visiting shrines, and then became a shepherd at Sebourg, France. Stricken with an illness that made him physically repulsive, Drogo built a hut at Sebourg and stayed there as a hermit for forty years. He is a patron of shepherds.