More about Saint Roch :
In an iconographical guide i read that he was born in Montpellier (south
of France-beautiful town and a good soccer team, where a man called
Cantona played ;-), son of a rich merchant, spends his life in
pilgrimage, is in Roma from 1368 to 1371, on his return trip he gets the
plague. Hidden in a wood, he is fed by a nearby seigneur's dog, which
steals a piece of bread everyday for him. An angel comes to heal and
cure him, he gets back to his town, where nobody recognizes him, taken
for a spy by his uncle, he is kept in jail, and dies there in a
supernatural light. Another version makes him die in the jail of
Angleria (Lombardia). Anyway he is the healer of the plague.
A good reason to build churches for him.
Can anybody confirm that story ?
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James Herisson
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