ST. JACQUES OGOU DRAPO Version ST. JACQUES OGOU DRAPO

St.Jacques: St. Jacques is the Catholic personification of the African spirit Ogun. When the captive negros were brought to Haiti, they were baptized as Catholics and forbidden to practice their African religions. Yet they continued to do so in secret and incorporated Catholicism into their traditions. Most spirits in Vodou are represented with both an African and a Catholic name. Ogun, or St. Jacques, is the warrior spirit and is associated with fire, iron, politics and thunderbolts.