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St. Roch - English
URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~eflst4/roch.html

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St. Roch seems to have been a native of Montpellier in Languedoc who nursed the sick during an epidemic in northern Italy. Legendary accounts of him say he was on a pilgrimage to Rome when the plague began, and that he went from place to place healing the victims by supernatural means; when he was himself stricken at Piacenza he was first succoured by a dog.

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The Life & Times of Saint Rocco - Patron Saint of Pestilence - English
URL: http://www.sanrocco.org/Stories.html

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Roch - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13100c.htm

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Born at Montpellier towards 1295; died 1327. His father was governor of that city. At his birth St. Roch is said to have been found miraculously marked on the breast with a red cross. Deprived of his parents when about twenty years old, he distributed his fortune among the poor, handed over to his uncle the government of Montpellier, and in the disguise of a mendicant pilgrim, set out for Italy, but stopped at Aquapendente, which was stricken by the plague, and devoted himself to the plague-stricken, curing them with the sign of the cross.

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Patron Saints Index: Roch - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintr06.htm

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Also known as Rock, Rocco, Rollox, Roque, Rochus Memorial 16 August Profile French noble who early developed a sympathy for the poor and sick. While on pilgrimage Roch encountered an area afflicted with plague. He stayed to minister to the sick, and affected several miraculous cures, but contracted the plague himself. He walked into a forest to die, but was befriended by a dog. The dog fed him with food stolen from his master's table, and Roch eventually recovered.

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