Roque (Lat. Rochus), St, the patron saint of those sick of the plague, and the enemy of cattle-plague. He was born in Montpellier, about 1295, devoted himself to the care of persons suffering from the plague, especially in Italy, and died in 1327.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 802
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