Who ya gonna call? St. Drogo!

Drogo (1105-1186) was a child of Flemish nobility.His mother died when he was born. He learned the reason for her death, and it made an emotional impact on him. He held himself responsible. 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 many times. He became a shepherd for about six years working in Sebourg, near Valenciennes, where he worked for a woman named Elizabeth de l'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 an 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.

Because of his deformity, he is considered the Patron Saint of Unattractive People. He is also Patron Saint of Coffee for no apparent reason.

Damien's note: Note that Drogo was supposedly working in the fields on the Sabbath. It is often pointed out the the shepherds Luke's gospel places at the manger of Jesus were chosen not because they were picturesque and romantic, but because shepherds were looked upon as irreligious because their duties kept them from careful observance of the Mosaic law. Matthew had astrologers -- pagans -- at the birth of the Messiah. Luke had Jews who were considered impious.