Saint Roch. Saint Roch or Rocco was a Catholic saint, a confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he is specially invoked against the plague.
He may also be called Rock in English, and has the designation of St Rollox in Glasgow, Scotland, said to be a corruption of St Roch's Loch, which referred to a small loch once near a chapel dedicated to St. Roch in 1506. He is a patron saint of dogs, of falsely accused people, bachelors, and several other things.
He is the patron saint of Dolo and Parma. He is also the patron of Casamassima, Cisterna di Latina and Palagiano, Italy.
Saint Roch is known as San Roque in Spanish, including in many now-English-speaking areas, such as the Philippines. According to his Acta and his vita in the Golden Legend, he was born at Montpellier, at that time upon the border of France, as the Golden Legend has it, the son of the noble governor of that city.
Even his birth was accounted a miracle, for his noble mother had been barren until she prayed to the Virgin Mary. Miraculously marked from birth with a red cross on his breast that grew as he did, he early began to manifest strict asceticism and great devoutness; on days when his devout mother fasted twice in the week, and the blessed child Rocke abstained him twice also, when his mother fasted in the week, and would suck his mother but once that day. On the death of his parents
He may also be called Rock in English, and has the designation of St Rollox in Glasgow, Scotland, said to be a corruption of St Roch's Loch, which referred to a small loch once near a chapel dedicated to St. Roch in 1506. He is a patron saint of dogs, of falsely accused people, bachelors, and several other things.
He is the patron saint of Dolo and Parma. He is also the patron of Casamassima, Cisterna di Latina and Palagiano, Italy.
Saint Roch is known as San Roque in Spanish, including in many now-English-speaking areas, such as the Philippines. According to his Acta and his vita in the Golden Legend, he was born at Montpellier, at that time upon the border of France, as the Golden Legend has it, the son of the noble governor of that city.
Even his birth was accounted a miracle, for his noble mother had been barren until she prayed to the Virgin Mary. Miraculously marked from birth with a red cross on his breast that grew as he did, he early began to manifest strict asceticism and great devoutness; on days when his devout mother fasted twice in the week, and the blessed child Rocke abstained him twice also, when his mother fasted in the week, and would suck his mother but once that day. On the death of his parents
Wikipedia ...