{"id":2425,"date":"2011-05-21T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2015-04-01T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:28:23","slug":"unattractive-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/unattractive-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Patron Saint of&#8230;unattractive people?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2426 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sheep-with-shepherd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sheep-with-shepherd.jpg 283w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/sheep-with-shepherd-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>In this month&#8217;s\u00a0<em>&#8220;Theology on Tap&#8221;<\/em> here in San Diego\u00a0we had a talk by\u00a0Bernadeane Carr entitled <em>&#8220;Saints: Our friends in high places&#8221;<\/em>. In it, she talked about the Saints who are associated with a particular cause, complaint or profession, the Saints whom we call <em>&#8220;Patron Saints&#8221;<\/em>. I therefore wanted to share with you some of the\u00a0more&#8230;erm&#8230;&#8221;interesting&#8221; patron Saints I&#8217;ve come across.\u00a0Believe it or not, there is a Patron Saint of unattractive people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His name is Saint Drogo, the son of\u00a0Flemish\u00a0nobility. Unfortunately, his mother died giving birth to him (for which he always felt\u00a0responsible) and his father died while he was a teenager. At the age of 18 he disposed of all of his property, lived a life of extreme penance and became a permanent pilgrim <em>(I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d have liked this blog if he was around today)<\/em>. He also worked as a shepherd for some time and it was claimed that he was able to bi-locate &#8211; being at Mass and being out in\u00a0the fields\u00a0at the same time <em>(many football fans today pray for this gift)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2427   alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/saint_drogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"243\" \/>Saint Drogo is the patron Saint of unattractive people because during one pilgrimage he contracted a disease which caused him to develop severe bodily\u00a0deformities. The people of the village built a\u00a0small cell attached to the local church to provide him with a place to live and to also protect them from seeing his deformities <em>(nice, hey?!)<\/em>.\u00a0St. Drogo stayed in his cell for the next forty years, having no contact with anyone, except to receive his simple sustenance: barley, water and the Eucharist.<\/p>\n<p>His feast day is April 16th&#8230;.my birthday.\u00a0I think this blog just found its patron Saint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Theology on Tap&#8221; here in San Diego\u00a0we had a talk by\u00a0Bernadeane Carr entitled &#8220;Saints: Our friends in high places&#8221;. In it, she talked about the Saints who are associated with a particular cause, complaint or profession, the Saints whom we call &#8220;Patron Saints&#8221;. I therefore wanted to share with you some of the\u00a0more&#8230;erm&#8230;&#8221;interesting&#8221; patron Saints I&#8217;ve come across.\u00a0Believe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[212,2969,210,209,211],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-bernadeane-carr","tag-featured","tag-patron-saint","tag-st-drogo","tag-theology-on-tap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57095,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/57095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}