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Bruised_Reed
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Some think that if she lived today she would have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis so she is considered the patroness of those who live with MS.
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oldgraymare2
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Thanks for that information, BruisedReed. I didn’t know that about her. If you read anything about her life, it is amazing to read about her. She was afflicted with so many different things. It is believed that many of these afflictions were given to her by God.
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twopekinguys
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St Drogo, is the patron Saint of unattractive people,and those that others find repulsive.
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.
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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.
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Shin
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St. Lidwine of Scheidam is very impressive. The books about her life are quite moving. Such great suffering and holiness together in one person.
Thomas a Kempis wrote:
‘In this virgin was accomplished what is read of blessed Job. “In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows; and they that feed upon me do not sleep: with the multitude of them my garment is consumed;” (Job xxx. 17). And so with the failure of medical arts and ofthe nourishment of food, her weakness daily grew worse. And the maiden pitiably afflicted lay upon a hard couch and was eaten by worms which, rising from her virginal body out of the putrefaction, consumed her flesh: and nevertheless no stench proceeded from them.’
Thomas a Kempis wrote:
‘In this virgin was accomplished what is read of blessed Job. “In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows; and they that feed upon me do not sleep: with the multitude of them my garment is consumed;” (Job xxx. 17). And so with the failure of medical arts and ofthe nourishment of food, her weakness daily grew worse. And the maiden pitiably afflicted lay upon a hard couch and was eaten by worms which, rising from her virginal body out of the putrefaction, consumed her flesh: and nevertheless no stench proceeded from them.’
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