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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 425 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROCH (See also:Lat. Rochus; Ital. Rocco; Span. Roque; Fr. Roch) (d. 1327)  , a See also:confessor whose See also:death is commemorated on the '16th of See also:August; he is specially invoked against the See also:plague . According to his Acta, he was See also:born at See also:Montpellier, See also:France, about 1295 . He See also:early began to See also:manifest strict See also:asceticism and See also:great devoutness, and on the death of his parents in his twentieth See also:year he gave all his substance to the poor . Coming to See also:Italy during an epidemic of plague, he was very diligent in tending the sick in the public hospitals at Aquapendente, See also:Cesena and See also:Rome, and effected many miraculous See also:cures byprayer and See also:simple contact . After similar ministries at See also:Piacenza he himself See also:fell See also:ill . He was expelled from the See also:town; and with-See also:drew into the See also:forest, where he would have perished had not a See also:dog belonging to a nobleman named Gothardus supplied hint with See also:bread . On his return to Montpellier he was arrested as a See also:spy and, thrown into See also:prison, where he died on the 16th of August 1327, having previously obtained from See also:God this favour —that all plague-stricken persons invoking him should be healed . His cult spread through See also:Spain, France, See also:Germany, See also:Belgium and Italy . A magnificent See also:temple was raised to him at See also:Venice, where his See also:body is believed to See also:lie, and numerous brotherhoods have been instituted in his See also:honour . He is usually represented in the garb of a See also:pilgrim, with a See also:wound in his thigh, and with a dog near him carrying a See also:loaf in its mouth . See Acta sanctorum, August, iii: 380-415; See also:Charles Cahier See also:Les Caracteristiques See also:des See also:saints (See also:Paris . 1867) pp .

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