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Saint Roch (Italian: Rocco; c. 1295 traditionally 16 August 1327) was a Christian saint, a confessor whose death is
commemorated on 16 August; he is
specially invoked against the plague.
On the death of his parents in his twentieth year he distributed all his worldly goods among the poor like Francis of
Assisi though his father on his deathbed
had ordained him governor of Montpellier and set out as a mendicant pilgrim for Rome. Coming into Italy during an
epidemic of plague, he was very diligent
in tending the sick in the public hospitals at Acquapendente, Cesena Rimini, Novara and Rome, and is said to have
effected many miraculous cures by prayer
and the sign of the cross and the touch of his hand. At Rome he preserved the "cardinal of Angleria in Lombardy"[8]
by making the mark of the cross on his
forehead, which miraculously remained (Legenda Aurea). Ministering at Piacenza he himself finally fell ill. He was
expelled from the town; and withdrew into
the forest, where he made himself a hut of boughs and leaves, which was miraculously supplied with water by a spring
that arose in the place; he would have
perished had not a dog belonging to a nobleman named Gothard supplied him with bread. The lord Gothard, following his
hunting dog that carried the bread,
discovered Saint Roch and became his acolyte.
On his return incognito to Montpellier he was arrested as a spy (by orders of his own uncle) and thrown into prison,
where he languished five years and died
on 16 August 1327, without revealing his name, to avoid worldly glory. After his death, according to Legenda Aurea,
"anon an angel brought from heaven a table divinely written with letters of gold into the prison, which he laid
under the head of S. Rocke. And in that table
was written that God had granted to him his prayer, that is to wit, that who that calleth meekly to S. Rocke he shall
not be hurt with any hurt of pestilence."
The townspeople recognized him as well by his birthmark; he was soon canonized in the popular mind, and a great
church erected in veneration.
Item can be engraved with message, names, dates or monogram.
Engraving doesn't delay your shipment.
Available in Yellow Gold Plated &14K Yellow or White Gold, or Sterling Silver
Is a Chain Included? You can choose which chain to add to your order when checking out
Pendant Bail - fits up to 4mm chain. We can make bail larger, just let us know in the special instructions upon ordering
All Sterling Silver is protected with a tarnish resistance to help it last for years without tarnishing.
