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47-631: San Roque may refer to: People [ edit ] Saint Roch (14th century), French Catholic saint Roque González y de Santa Cruz (1576–1628), Spanish Catholic saint Places [ edit ] Argentina [ edit ] San Roque, Corrientes , a city in Corrientes Province San Roque Department , a department of Corrientes Province San Roque Lake , an artificial lake in Córdoba Aguada San Roque ,

94-792: A barangay in Santo Tomas, Batangas San Roque, a barangay in Tubajon , Dinagat Islands San Roque, a barangay in Zamboanga City San Roque West, Agoo , La Union Spain [ edit ] San Roque, O Vicedo , a village in San Miguel das Negradas , Galicia San Roque, Spain , a municipality in Cádiz, Andalusia San Roque de Riomiera , a municipality in Cantabria Other places [ edit ] San Roque Lake (Bolivia) ,

141-708: A cardinal of the general scandal that would result if the widely venerated San Rocco were impugned as an impostor. Sixtus did not pursue the matter but left it to later popes to proceed with the canonization process. His successor, Pope Gregory XIV (1590–1591), added Roch of Montpellier, who had already been memorialized in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for two centuries, to the Catholic Church Martyrology , thereby fixing August 16 as his universal feast day. Numerous brotherhoods have been instituted in his honour. He

188-454: A ceiling canvas (1564). It is known for certain that the body of Roch was carried from Voghera, instead of Montpellier as previously thought, to Venice in 1485. Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) built a church and a hospital in his honour. Pope Paul III (1534–1549) instituted a confraternity of St. Roch. This was raised to an archconfraternity in 1556 by Pope Paul IV ; it still thrives today. Roch had not been officially recognized as yet as

235-772: A district of Lamas San Roque, a neighborhood in Santiago de Surco , Lima Philippines [ edit ] San Roque, Northern Samar , a municipality San Roque, a barangay in Gapan , Nueva Ecija San Roque, a barangay in Navotas , Metro Manila San Roque, a barangay in Pateros , Metro Manila San Roque, a barangay in Quezon City , Metro Manila Sitio San Roque , a sitio in Bagong Pag-asa , Quezon City, Metro Manila San Roque,

282-540: A dog from the statue of San Roque coming to life to serve as a guardian of a protagonist blind girl. A 2012 film “The Drop” a gritty thriller about a bartender and his hardened employer. The stray dog in the movie was named after St. Rocco after the main character visits a Catholic Church to pray and sees a statue of Saint Roch in the church. 1945 Italian landmark film "Open City" mentions in passing that statues of St. Roch as "more in demand" than those of St Anthony nowadays. Battle of San Roque The Battle of San Roque

329-756: A football club in San Roque, Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain CD San Roque de Lepe , a football club in Lepe, Andalusia, Spain Club de Rugby San Roque , a rugby union club in Valencia, Spain San Roque Club , a country club in San Roque, Andalusia San Roque railway station , in San Roque, Andalusia See also [ edit ] Roque (disambiguation) San Roque Dam (disambiguation) São Roque (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

376-410: A form of martyrdom." Roch's status as a pilgrim who suffered the plague is paramount in his iconography. "The sight of Roch scarred by the plague yet alive and healthy must have been an emotionally-charged image of a promised cure. Here was literal proof that one could survive the plague, a saint who had triumphed over the disease in his own flesh." F. T. Prince published a long monologue from

423-547: A lake in Iténez Province, Beni Department San Roque, Antioquia , Colombia, a municipality San Roque, Quito , Ecuador, an electoral parish or district San Roque, Saipan , Northern Mariana Islands, a village San Roque, Santa Barbara, California , US, a residential neighborhood Other uses [ edit ] Battle of San Roque , an 1829 battle of the Argentine Civil War CD San Roque ,

470-460: A medieval priest who tends to plague victims is named Father Roche. Saint Roch's dog is sometimes conflated with the folk saint Saint Guinefort , the holy greyhound . Croatian celebrations around the saint are depicted in Miroslav Krleža 's 1932 novel The Return of Philip Latinowicz . A 2012 Philippine fantasy teleserye , Aso ni San Roque (literally Saint Roch's Dog ), depicts

517-502: A month later, Bustos and Quiroga tried again for revenge: invaded the province of Córdoba, occupied most of the western hills and marched on the provincial capital. They confronted Paz at the Battle of La Tablada but ultimate victory was again on Paz's side. Córdoba province remained under Paz's and unitarian control, joined with the federalists that had left Bustos plus the young class of city lawyers and merchants. He then set to make at least

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564-403: 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 in his twentieth year he distributed all his worldly goods among

611-435: A rich iconography of the plague, its victims and its protective saints was soon developed, in which the iconography of Roche finds its historical place: previously the topos did not exist. In contrast, however, St. Roch of Montpellier cannot be dismissed based on the dates of a specific plague event. In medieval times, the term "plague" was used to indicate a whole array of illnesses and epidemics. The first literary account

658-511: A saint, however. In 1590 the Venetian ambassador at Rome reported back to the Serenissima that he had been repeatedly urged to present the witnesses and documentation of the life and miracles of San Rocco, already deeply entrenched in the Venetian life, because Pope Sixtus V "is strong in his opinion either to canonize him or else to remove him from the ranks of the saints;" the ambassador had warned

705-457: A tacit alliance with the unitarian governments of the provinces of Tucumán and Salta , and after the next battles he could formalize the Unitarian League (a.k.a. Liga del Interior ) San Roque was the first of four battles commanded by general Paz. He won all four decisively, distinguishing himself as the best Argentine general of the time. The Battle of San Roque's field is today under

752-656: A village and municipality in Neuquén Province Costa Rica [ edit ] San Roque District, Barva , Heredia San Roque District, Grecia , Alajuela Paraguay [ edit ] San Roque (Asunción) , a neighborhood of Asunción San Roque González de Santa Cruz , a district in Paraguarí Department Peru [ edit ] San Roque de Cumbaza , a town in the San Martín Region San Roque de Cumbaza District ,

799-896: Is also the patron saint of the towns of Arboleas and Albanchez , in Almeria , southern Spain, and Deba , in the Basque Country . Saint Roch is known as " São Roque " in Portuguese, as " Sant Roc " in Catalan, as " San Roque " in Spanish (including in former colonies of the Spanish colonial empire such as the Philippines ), as " San Rocco " in Italian and as " Sveti Rok " in Slovenian and Croatian. The chronology of

846-453: Is an undated Acta that is labelled, by comparison with the longer, elaborated accounts that were to follow, Acta Breviora , which relies almost entirely on standardized hagiographic topoi to celebrate and promote the cult of Roch. The story that when the Council of Constance was threatened with plague in 1414, public processions and prayers for the intercession of Roch were ordered, and

893-498: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Saint Roch Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague . He has

940-531: 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. The date (1327) asserted by Francesco Diedo for Roch's death would precede the traumatic advent of the Black Death in Europe (1347–49) after long centuries of absence, for which

987-600: Is usually represented in the garb of a pilgrim, often lifting his tunic to demonstrate the plague sore, or bubo , in his thigh, and accompanied by a dog carrying a loaf in its mouth. The Third Order of Saint Francis , by tradition, claims him as a member and includes his feast on its own calendar of saints , observing it on August 17. The Catholic Church in Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Serbia and Montenegro venerates him as sveti Roko . Eponymous churches are numerous (cf. Crkva sv. Roka  [ hr ] ) including

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1034-469: The caudillo and militia commander in La Rioja Province , asking for help. Before Bustos could receive reinforcements, Paz advanced towards San Roque. Bustos made a last effort, sending his son-in-law Arredondo to negotiate peace. Paz attacked without answering. It is possible, judging by the lack of movements or preparations on the part of Bustos, that Arredondo had not yet arrived with a response, so

1081-521: The sign of the cross and the touch of his hand . At Rome, according to the Golden Legend, he preserved the "cardinal of Angleria in Lombardy" by making the mark of the cross on his forehead, which miraculously remained. Ministering at Piacenza at the hospital of Nostra Signora di Betlemme , he himself finally fell ill. He withdrew into the forest, where he made himself a hut of boughs and leaves, which

1128-456: The Black Death into perspective of God's secure and benevolent plan for humankind." The plague votives functioned both to request intercessory aid from plague saints and to provide catharsis for a population that had just witnessed the profound bodily destruction of the plague. Showing plague saints such as Roch and Sebastian invoked the memory of the human suffering experienced by Christ during

1175-501: The Black Death, especially the Italian plague epidemic of 1477–79, new images of Christian martyrs and saints appeared and Roch gained new fame and popularity. The religious art of the time emphasized the importance of the saint to plague-ridden Christians. The new plague-related images of Roch were drawn from a variety of sources. Plague texts dating from ancient and classical times, as well as Christian, scientific and folk beliefs, all contributed to this emerging visual tradition. Some of

1222-798: The Church of St. Roch in Petrovaradin in Serbia . In India, there is a Church in Kerala in the name of Saint Roch under the Thrissur Archdiocese called St. Rocky's Church Pootharakkal . There is a huge statue of the saint about 24 feet in height (the first and only one in Asia). There is a special holy mass and Novena every Thursday. Roch received renewed attention and veneration during the COVID-19 pandemic . Following

1269-460: The Passion. In the art of Roch after 1477, the saint displayed the wounds of his martyrdom without evidence of pain or suffering. Roch actively lifted his clothing to display the plague bubo on his thigh. This display of his plague bubo showed that "he welcomed his disease as a divinely sent opportunity to imitate the sufferings of Christ... [his] patient endurance [of the physical suffering of plague was]

1316-577: The Saint's life is uncertain and full of legendary elements. 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. 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

1363-462: The capture of their artillery and heavy losses of their men, they simply ran away from the battlefield. The unitarian cavalry slaughtered the fleeing enemy causing more than 100 deaths in a few minutes. In a little more than a half-hour of combat, Bustos ordered a retreat of his remaining forces. Bustos was forced to leave, running for refuge within Quiroga's troops, therefore abandoning his province. Only

1410-402: The confidence in which renaissance worshipers sought to access supernatural aid in overcoming the ravages of the plague. The very abundance of means by which people invoked the aid of the celestial court is essential in understanding Renaissance responses to the disease. Rather than depression or resignation, people "possessed a confidence that put even an apocalyptic disaster of the magnitude of

1457-566: The days of the Arequito Revolt , in 1820. His confrontation with Paz, who had fought with him in the revolt, had started a few months earlier: Paz thought Bustos had betrayed the rebel group, not carrying his army to the seat of the independence war in Upper Peru . After a lacklustre career in Salta Province , Paz had made a name for himself in the war with Brazil , where he was promoted to

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1504-578: The designation of Rollox in Glasgow , Scotland , said to be a corruption of Roch's Loch, which referred to a small loch once near a chapel dedicated to Roch in 1506. It is also the name of a football club, St Roch's in Glasgow. He is a patron saint of dogs, invalids, falsely accused people, bachelors , and several other things. He is the patron saint of Dolo (near Venice ) and Parma , as well as Casamassima , Cisterna di Latina and Palagiano (Italy). He

1551-416: The dissidents in his province, Paz gathered his troops in the interior of the country and marched north, with the excuse of returning his men to their provinces. Instead, he reached Córdoba's provincial capital city, where he demanded Bustos's resignation, whose mandate had expired, and wanted to elect a new governor (the provincial constitution had term limits and prohibited a third mandate), while everybody at

1598-470: The federalist commander would have thought they were still within a period of truce. Paz's behavior the next year at the Battle of Oncativo supposes this was the case. Bustos was not very experienced in battle, and the few he had won were from defensive positions. He therefore just waited for the unitarians , protecting his position with artillery . Paz simply divided his forces and commanded his lieutenants to just walk over anybody on their front. The order

1645-555: The most popular symbols of plague were swords, darts, and most especially arrows. There was also a prevalence of memento mori themes, dark clouds, and astrological signs (signa magna) such as comets, which were often referenced by physicians and writers of plague tracts as causes of plague. The physical symptoms of plague – a raised arm, a tilted head, or a collapsed body – began to symbolize plague in post-Black Death paintings. Plague saints offered hope and healing before, during, and after times of plague. A specific style of painting,

1692-468: The outbreak ceased, is provided by Francesco Diedo, the Venetian governor of Brescia , in his Vita Sancti Rochi , 1478. The cult of Roch gained momentum during the bubonic plague that passed through northern Italy in 1477–79. His popularity, originally in central and northern Italy and at Montpellier, spread through Spain, France, Lebanon , the Low Countries , Argentina, Brazil, and Germany, where he

1739-437: The perspective of Saint Roch's dog entitled 'His Dog and Pilgrim' in his 1983 collection Later On . The breaking of a statue of Saint Roch is a crucial incident in the 1934 novel Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevallier . In Albert Camus ' 1947 novel The Plague , worshippers in the cathedral of Oran are seen gathered around the statue of Saint Roch. In the 1992 science fiction novel Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ,

1786-506: The plague votive, was considered a talisman for warding off the plague. It portrayed a particular saint as an intercessor between God and the person or persons who commissioned the painting – usually a town, government, lay confraternity, or religious order to atone for the "collective guilt" of the community. Rather than a society depressed and resigned to repeated epidemics, these votives represent people taking positive steps to regain control over their environment. Paintings of Roch represent

1833-480: The poor, entered the Franciscan Third Order , and set out as a mendicant pilgrim for Rome, although his father on his deathbed had designated him governor of Montpellier. 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

1880-668: The rank of general after the Battle of Ituzaingó . He then declared himself to be against the Buenos Aires governor Manuel Dorrego who had been forced to sign a peace treaty with the Empire of Brazil which granted the independence of Uruguay and its separation from the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata . Paz supported the revolution against Dorrego, organized and fought the forces of Juan Lavalle . As Lavalle had not been able to vanquish

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1974-424: The time knew that Paz had in mind to be a candidate himself. Paz attacked Córdoba with his powerful army, but Bustos escaped to a ranch at San Roque, in the foothills near the city. Bustos tried to negotiate an agreement by which neither would be the new governor. Paz disagreed, and broke relations, accusing Bustos of delaying tactics while awaiting reinforcements. Bustos had sent a message to Juan Facundo Quiroga ,

2021-443: Was arrested at Voghera 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. After his death, according to the Golden Legend ; 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

2068-429: Was followed in each of his groups, after a severe bombardment over the federalist positions by commander Arengreen's artillery, a Swedish soldier fighting for the unitarians. The divisions commanded by Román Deheza, Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid and Juan Esteban Pedernera displaced the enemy's forces before them with ease. The federalist troops, on their side were severely affected by the unitarian bombardment, and after

2115-407: 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 Palastrelli supplied him with bread and licked his wounds, healing them. Count Gottardo Pallastrelli, following his hunting dog that carried the bread, discovered Roch and brought him home to recover. On his way back to return incognito to Montpellier, he

2162-599: Was often interpolated into the roster of the Fourteen Holy Helpers , whose veneration spread in the wake of the Black Death . The 16th-century Scuola Grande di San Rocco and the adjacent church of San Rocco were dedicated to him by a confraternity at Venice , where his body was said to have been surreptitiously translated and was triumphantly inaugurated in 1485; the Scuola Grande is famous for its sequence of paintings by Tintoretto , who painted Roch in glory in

2209-568: Was part of the Argentine Civil War . It was fought on the Primero River , near the city of Córdoba , Argentina , on 22 April 1829. The Federalist forces of Córdoba Province governor Juan Bautista Bustos were defeated by the Unitarian forces of General José María Paz . As a result of his victory, Paz assumed the office of provincial Governor. General Bustos had governed Córdoba since

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