212:. The retirement and solitude were most agreeable to him, on account of the opportunities they made for prayer. For six years Drogo kept sheep, busying himself with practices of prayer and penance. He was a skilled shepherd who could read the weather and knew how to cure the animals of their ills. He shared these skills with others. Despite his relative obscurity, his charity and spirit of devotion and prayer, gained him the esteem and affection of all, particularly Elizabeth de la Haire. Many made him presents: but these he bestowed on the poor. It was rumored he had the gift of
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Although Drogo is now regarded by some as the patron saint of coffee, this patronage is anachronistic. There is no evidence that a pilgrim from
Flanders in the 12th century had any connection to a drink associated with Ethiopia and the Middle East in the 15th century. Mark Pendergrast states in
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Baume-les-Messieurs, coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, deaf people, Fleury-sur-Loire, gall stones, hernias, illness, insanity, mental illness, mentally ill people, midwives, mute people, muteness, mutes, orphans, ruptures, sheep, shepherds, sick people, sickness, cattle, unattractive
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for 45 years until he died in 1186, at the age of eighty-one.
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