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Saint Roch. Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), [ a] 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.
20 metres (66 ft) The Church of Saint Roch ( Italian: Chiesa di San Rocco) is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Roch in Venice, northern Italy. It was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger, but was substantially altered in 1725. The façade dates from 1765 to 1771, [1] and was designed by Bernardino Maccarucci.
Benedict Joseph Labre, TOSF (French: Benoît-Joseph Labre, 25 March 1748 – 16 April 1783) was a French Franciscan tertiary, and Catholic saint.Labre was from a well to do family near Arras, France.
Devastating epidemics of the plague had swept through Europe beginning in the sixteenth century, and Rubens was commissioned by the Brotherhood of Saint Roch to paint an altarpiece for the Church of St Martin in Aalst, Belgium, where the lay brotherhood were installing an altar to Saint Roch, patron saint of invalids, and specially invoked against the plague.
Lemery Church. The San Roque Parish Church, also known as Saint Roch Parish Church and Lemery Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Lemery, Batangas, in the Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Lipa. Dedicated to St. Roch and to the Our Lady of Divine Grace as its secondary patron, the fiesta is ...
Canaletto (1697–1768) Alternative names. Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto. Description. Italian painter, etcher and drawer. Date of birth/death. 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697. 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768.
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In 1816 Louise completed an altarpiece of "Saint Roch", on designs by Heinrich Meyer for the Rochuskapelle in Bingen, that he had described in 1814 as "On the Rhine, Main and Neckar". This chapel had been rebuilt from ruins and was rededicated on 16 August 1814 (St Roch's feast day), with Goethe participating in the ceremonies.